Inducing cellular immune responses to prostate cancer antigens using peptide and nucleic acid compositions

ABSTRACT

This invention uses our knowledge of the mechanisms by which antigen is recognized by T cells to identify and prepare prostate cancer-associated antigen epitopes, and to develop epitope-based vaccines directed towards prostate tumors. More specifically, this application communicates our discovery of pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority to provisional application 60/171,312 filed Dec. 21, 1999. This application is related to U.S. Ser. No. 09/189,702, filed Nov. 10, 1998, which is a CIP of U.S. Ser. No. 08/205,713 filed Mar. 4, 1994, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/159,184 filed Nov. 29, 1993, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/073,205 filed Jun. 4, 1993 which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/027,146 filed Mar. 5, 1993. The present application is also related to U.S. Ser. No. 09/226,775, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/815,396, which claims benefit of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 60/013,113. Furthermore, the present application is related to U.S. Ser. No. 09/017,735, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/589,108; U.S. Ser. No. 08/454,033; and U.S. Ser. No. 08/349,177. The present application is also related to U.S. Ser. No. 09/017,524, U.S. Ser. No. 08/821,739, which claims benefit of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 60/013,833; and U.S. Ser. No. 08/347,610, which is a CIP of U.S. Ser. No. 08/159,339, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/103,396, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/027,746, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 07/926,666. The present application is also related to U.S. Ser. No. 09/017,743, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/590,298; and U.S. Ser. No. 08/452,843, which is a CIP of U.S. Ser. No. 08/344,824, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 08/278,634. The present application is also related to PCT application 99/12066 filed May 28, 1999 which claims benefit of provisional U.S. Ser. No. 60/087,192, and U.S. Ser. No. 09/009,953, which is a CIP of abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 60/036,713 and abandoned U.S. Ser. No. 60/037,432. In addition, the present application is related to U.S. Ser. No. 09/098,584, U.S. Ser. No. 09/239,043, U.S. Ser. No. 60/117,486, U.S. Ser. No. 09/350,401, and U.S. Ser. No. 09/357,737. In addition, the present application is related to U.S. patent application entitled “Inducing Cellular Immune Responses to Carcinoembryonic Antigen Using Peptide and Nucleic Acid Compositions”, Attorney Docket No. 018623-014400, filed Dec. 10, 1999; U.S. patent application entitled “Inducing Cellular Immune Responses to p53 Using Peptide and Nucleic Acid Compositions”; Attorney Docket No. 018623-014500, filed Dec. 10, 1999; U.S. patent application entitled “Inducing Cellular Immune Responses to MAGE2/3 Using Peptide and Nucleic Acid Compositions”, Attorney Docket No. 018623-014600, filed Dec. 10, 1999; and U.S. patent application entitled “Inducing Cellular Immune Responses to HER2/neu Using Peptide and Nucleic Acid Compositions”, Attorney Docket No. 018623-014800, filed Dec. 10, 1999. All of the above applications are incorporated herein by reference.

FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

This invention was funded, in part, by the United States government under grants with the National Institutes of Health. The U.S. government has certain rights in this invention.

INDEX

-   I. Background of the Invention -   II. Summary of the Invention -   III. Brief Description of the Figures -   IV. Detailed Description of the Invention     -   A. Definitions     -   B. Stimulation of CTL and HTL responses     -   C. Binding Affinity of Peptide Epitopes for HLA Molecules     -   D. Peptide Epitope Binding Motifs and Supermotifs         -   1. HLA-A1 supermotif         -   2. HLA-A2 supermotif         -   3. HLA-A3 supermotif         -   4. HLA-A24 supermotif         -   5. HLA-B7 supermotif         -   6. HLA-B27 supermotif         -   7. HLA-B44 supermotif         -   8. HLA-B58 supermotif         -   9. HLA-B62 supermotif         -   10. HLA-A1 motif         -   11. HLA-A2.1 motif         -   12. HLA-A3 motif         -   13. HLA-A11 motif         -   14. HLA-A24 motif         -   15. HLA-DR-1-4-7 supermotif         -   16. HLA-DR3 motifs     -   E. Enhancing Population Coverage of the Vaccine     -   F. Immune Response-Stimulating Peptide Epitope Analogs     -   G. Computer Screening of Protein Sequences from Disease-Related         Antigens for Supermotif- or Motif-Containing Epitopes     -   H. Preparation of Peptide Epitopes     -   I. Assays to Detect T-Cell Responses     -   J. Use of Peptide Epitopes for Evaluating Immune Responses     -   K. Vaccine Compositions         -   1. Minigene Vaccines         -   2. Combinations of CTL Peptides with Helper Peptides         -   3. Combinations of CTL Peptides with T Cell Priming Agents         -   4. Vaccine Compositions Comprising Dendritic Cells Pulsed             with CTL and/or HTL Peptides     -   L. Administration of Vaccines for Therapeutic or Prophylactic         Purposes     -   M. Kits -   V. Examples -   VI. Claims -   VII. Abstract

I. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

A growing body of evidence suggests that cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) are important in the immune response to tumor cells. CTL recognize peptide epitopes in the context of HLA class I molecules that are expressed on the surface of almost all nucleated cells. Following intracellular processing of endogenously synthesized tumor antigens, antigen-derived peptide epitopes bind to class I HLA molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum, and the resulting complex is then transported to the cell surface. CTL recognize the peptide-HLA class I complex, which then results in the destruction of the cell bearing the HLA-peptide complex directly by the CTL and/or via the activation of non-destructive mechanisms, e.g., activation of lymphokines such as tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) or interferon-γ (IFNγ) which enhance the immune response and facilitate the destruction of the tumor cell.

Tumor-specific helper T lymphocytes (HTLs) are also known to be important for maintaining effective antitumor immunity. Their role in antitumor immunity has been demonstrated in animal models in which these cells not only serve to provide help for induction of CTL and antibody responses, but also provide effector functions, which are mediated by direct cell contact and also by secretion of lymphokines (e.g., IFNγ and TNF-α).

A fundamental challenge in the development of an efficacious tumor vaccine is immune suppression or tolerance that can occur. There is therefore a need to establish vaccine embodiments that elicit immune responses of sufficient breadth and vigor to prevent progression and/or clear the tumor.

The epitope approach, as we have described, represents a solution to this challenge, in that it allows the incorporation of various CTL, HTL, and antibody (if desired) epitopes from discrete regions of one or more target tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) in a single vaccine composition. Such a composition may simultaneously target multiple dominant and subdominant epitopes and thereby be used to achieve effective immunization in a diverse population.

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men. Current therapies, i.e., chemotherapy combined with androgen blockade, antiandrogen withdrawal, and other secondary hormonal therapies, have met with limited success. Thus, there is a need to develop more efficacious therapies. The multiepitopic immunotherapy vaccine compositions of the present invention fulfill this need.

Antigens that are associated with prostate cancer include, but are not limited to, prostate specific antigen (PSA), prostate specific membrane antigen (PSM), prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), and human kallikrein2 (hK2 or HuK2). These antigens represent important antigen targets for the polyepitopic vaccine compositions of the invention.

PSM is also an important candidate for prostate cancer therapy. It is a Type II membrane protein that is expressed at high levels on prostate adenocarcinomas. The levels of expression increase on metastases and in carcinomas that are refractory to hormone therapy. PSM is not generally present on normal tissues, although low levels have been detected in the colonic crypts and in the duodenum, and PSM can be detected in normal male serum and seminal fluid (see, e.g., Silver et al., Clin. Cancer Res. 3:81-85, 1997). CTL responses to PSM have also been documented (see, e.g., Murphy-et al., Prostate 29:371-380, 1996; and Salgaller et al., Prostate 35:144-151, 1998).

PAP is a tissue-specific differentiation antigen that is secreted exclusively by cells in the prostate (see, e.g., Lam et al., Prostate 15:13-21, 1989). It can be detected in serum and levels are increased in patients with prostate carcinoma (see, e.g., Jacobs et al., Curr. Probl. Cancer 15:299-360, 1991). The PAP protein sequence has, at best, a 49% sequence homology with other acid phosphatases with the homologous regions distributed throughout the protein. Accordingly, PAP-specific epitopes can be identified and several different CTL epitopes have been described (see, e.g., Peshwa et al., Prostate 36:129-138, 1998).

The hK2 protein is functionally a serine protease involved in posttranslational processing of polypeptides. It is expressed by prostate epithelia exclusively, and is found in both benign and malignant prostate cancer tissue. Although it is expressed in 50% of normal prostate cells, the percentage of cells expressing hK2 is increased in adenocarcinomas and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) (see, e.g., Darson et al., Urology 49:857-862, 1997). Based on the preferential expression of this antigen on prostate cancer cells, hK2 is also an important target for immunotherapy.

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA), also referred to as hK3, is a secreted serine protease and a member of the kallikrein family of proteins. The PSA gene is 80% homologous with the hK2 gene, however, tissue expression of hK2 is regulated independently of PSA (see, e.g., Darson et al., Urology 49:857-862, 1997). Expression of PSA is restricted to prostate epithelial cells, both benign and malignant. The antigen can be detected in the serum of most prostate cancer patients and in seminal plasma. Several T cell epitopes from PSA have been identified and have been found to be immunogenic, and antibody responses have been reported in patients (see, e.g., Correale et al., J. Immunol. 161:3186, 1998; and Alexander et al., Urology 51:150-157, 1998). Thus, based on its prostate-restricted expression and ability to stimulate immune responses, PSA is an attractive target for immunotherapy of prostate cancer.

The information provided in this section is intended to disclose the presently understood state of the art as of the filing date of the present application. Information is included in this section which was generated subsequent to the priority date of this application. Accordingly, information in this section is not intended, in any way, to delineate the priority date for the invention.

II. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

This invention applies our knowledge of the mechanisms by which antigen is recognized by T cells, for example, to develop epitope-based vaccines directed towards TAAs. More specifically, this application identifies epitopes for inclusion in diagnostic and/or pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use of the epitopes for the evaluation of immune responses and for the treatment and/or prevention of cancer.

The use of epitope-based vaccines has several advantages over current vaccines, particularly when compared to the use of whole antigens in vaccine compositions. For example, immunosuppressive epitopes that may be present in whole antigens can be avoided with the use of epitope-based vaccines. Such immunosuppressive epitopes may, e.g., correspond to immunodominant epitopes in whole antigens, which may be avoided by selecting peptide epitopes from non-dominant regions (see, e.g., Disis et al., J. Immunol. 156:3151-3158, 1996).

An additional advantage of an epitope-based vaccine approach is the ability to combine selected epitopes (CTL and HTL), and further, to modify the composition of the epitopes, achieving, for example, enhanced immunogenicity. Accordingly, the immune response can be modulated, as appropriate, for the target disease. Similar engineering of the response is not possible with traditional approaches.

Another major benefit of epitope-based immune-stimulating vaccines is their safety. The possible pathological side effects caused by infectious agents or whole protein antigens, which might have their own intrinsic biological activity, is eliminated.

An epitope-based vaccine also provides the ability to direct and focus an immune response to multiple selected antigens from the same pathogen (a “pathogen” may be an infectious agent or a tumor-associated molecule). Thus, patient-by-patient variability in the immune response to a particular pathogen may be alleviated by inclusion of epitopes from multiple antigens from the pathogen in a vaccine composition.

Furthermore, an epitope-based anti-tumor vaccine also provides the opportunity to combine epitopes derived from multiple tumor-associated molecules. This capability can therefore address the problem of tumor-to tumor variability that arises when developing a broadly targeted anti-tumor vaccine for a given tumor type and can also reduce the likelihood of tumor escape due to antigen loss. For example, prostate cancer cells in one patient may express target TAAs that differ from the prostate cancer cells in another patient. Epitopes derived from multiple TAAs can be included in a polyepitopic vaccine that will target both prostate cancers.

One of the most formidable obstacles to the development of broadly efficacious epitope-based immunotherapeutics, however, has been the extreme polymorphism of HLA molecules. To date, effective non-genetically biased coverage of a population has been a task of considerable complexity; such coverage has required that epitopes be used that are specific for HLA molecules corresponding to each individual HLA allele. Impractically large numbers of epitopes would therefore have to be used in order to cover ethnically diverse populations. Thus, there has existed a need for peptide epitopes that are bound by multiple HLA antigen molecules for use in epitope-based vaccines. The greater the number of HLA antigen molecules bound, the greater the breadth of population coverage by the vaccine.

Furthermore, as described herein in greater detail, a need has existed to modulate peptide binding properties, e.g., so that peptides that are able to bind to multiple HLA molecules do so with an affinity that will stimulate an immune response. Identification of epitopes restricted by more than one HLA allele at an affinity that correlates with immunogenicity is important to provide thorough population coverage, and to allow the elicitation of responses of sufficient vigor to prevent or clear an infection in a diverse segment of the population. Such a response can also target a broad array of epitopes. The technology disclosed herein provides for such favored immune responses.

In a preferred embodiment, epitopes for inclusion in vaccine compositions of the invention are selected by a process whereby protein sequences of known antigens are evaluated for the presence of motif or supermotif-bearing epitopes. Peptides corresponding to a motif- or supermotif-bearing epitope are then synthesized and tested for the ability to bind to the HLA molecule that recognizes the selected motif. Those peptides that bind at an intermediate or high affinity i.e., an IC₅₀ (or a K_(D) value) of about 500 nM or less for HLA class I molecules or an IC₅₀ of about 1000 nM or less for HLA class II molecules, are further evaluated for their ability to induce a CTL or HTL response. Immunogenic peptide epitopes are selected for inclusion in vaccine compositions.

Supermotif-bearing peptides may additionally be tested for the ability to bind to multiple alleles within the HLA supertype family. Moreover, peptide epitopes may be analoged to modify binding affinity and/or the ability to bind to multiple alleles within an HLA supertype.

The invention also includes embodiments comprising methods for monitoring or evaluating an immune response to a TAA in a patient having a known HLA-type. Such methods comprise incubating a T lymphocyte sample from the patient with a peptide composition comprising a TAA epitope that has an amino acid sequence comprising a supermotif or motif and which binds the product of at least one HLA allele present in the patient, and detecting for the presence of a T lymphocyte that binds to the peptide. A CTL peptide epitope may, for example, be used as a component of a tetrameric complex for this type of analysis.

An alternative modality for defining the peptide epitopes in accordance with the invention is to recite the physical properties, such as length; primary structure; or charge, which are correlated with binding to a particular allele-specific HLA molecule or group of allele-specific HLA molecules. A further modality for defining peptide epitopes is to recite the physical properties of an HLA binding pocket, or properties shared by several allele-specific HLA binding pockets (e.g. pocket configuration and charge distribution) and reciting that the peptide epitope fits and binds to the pocket or pockets.

As will be apparent from the discussion below, other methods and embodiments are also contemplated. Further, novel synthetic peptides produced by any of the methods described herein are also part of the invention.

III. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

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IV. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The peptide epitopes and corresponding nucleic acid compositions of the present invention are useful for stimulating an immune response to a TAA by stimulating the production of CTL or HTL responses. The peptide epitopes, which are derived directly or indirectly from native TAA protein amino acid sequences, are able to bind to HLA molecules and stimulate an immune response to the TAA. The complete sequence of the TAA proteins to be analyzed can be obtained from GenBank. Peptide epitopes and analogs thereof can also be readily determined from sequence information that may subsequently be discovered for heretofore unknown variants of particular TAAs, as will be clear from the disclosure provided below.

A list of target TAAs includes, but is not limited to, the following antigens: MAGE 1, MAGE 2, MAGE 3, MAGE-11, MAGE-A10, BAGE, GAGE, RAGE, MAGE-C1, LAGE-1, CAG-3, DAM, MUC1, MUC2, MUC18, NY-ESO-1, MUM-1, CDK4, BRCA2, NY-LU-1, NY-LU-7, NY-LU-12, CASP8, RAS, KIAA-2-5, SCCs, p53, p73, CEA, Her 2/neu, Melan-A, gp100, tyrosinase, TRP2, gp75/TRP1, kallikrein, PSM, PAP, PSA, PT1-1, B-catenin, PRAME, Telomerase, FAK, cyclin D1 protein, NOEY2, EGF-R, SART-1, CAPB, HPVE7, p5, Folate receptor CDC27, PAGE-1, and PAGE-4. Epitopes derived from these antigens may be used in combination with one another to target a specific tumor type, e.g., prostate tumors, or to target multiple types of tumors.

The peptide epitopes of the invention have been identified in a number of ways, as will be discussed below. Also discussed in greater detail is that analog peptides have been derived and the binding activity for HLA molecules modulated by modifying specific amino acid residues to create peptide analogs exhibiting altered immunogenicity. Further, the present invention provides compositions and combinations of compositions that enable epitope-based vaccines that are capable of interacting with HLA molecules encoded by various genetic alleles to provide broader population coverage than prior vaccines.

IV.A. Definitions

The invention can be better understood with reference to the following definitions, which are listed alphabetically:

A “construct” as used herein generally denotes a composition that does not occur in nature. A construct can be produced by synthetic technologies, e.g., recombinant DNA preparation and expression or chemical synthetic techniques for nucleic or amino acids. A construct can also be produced by the addition or affiliation of one material with another such that the result is not found in nature in that form.

A “computer” or “computer system” generally includes: a processor; at least one information storage/retrieval apparatus such as, for example, a hard drive, a disk drive or a tape drive; at least one input apparatus such as, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a touch screen, or a microphone; and display structure. Additionally, the computer may include a communication channel in communication with a network. Such a computer may include more or less than what is listed above.

“Cross-reactive binding” indicates that a peptide is bound by more than one HLA molecule; a synonym is degenerate binding.

A “cryptic epitope” elicits a response by immunization with an isolated peptide, but the response is not cross-reactive in vitro when intact whole protein which comprises the epitope is used as an antigen.

A “dominant epitope” is an epitope that induces an immune response upon immunization with a whole native antigen (see, e.g., Sercarz, et al., Annu. Rev. Immunol. 11:729-766, 1993). Such a response is cross-reactive in vitro with an isolated peptide epitope.

With regard to a particular amino acid sequence, an “epitope” is a set of amino acid residues which is involved in recognition by a particular immunoglobulin, or in the context of T cells, those residues necessary for recognition by T cell receptor proteins and/or Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) receptors. In an immune system setting, in vivo or in vitro, an epitope is the collective features of a molecule, such as primary, secondary and tertiary peptide structure, and charge, that together form a site recognized by an immunoglobulin, T cell receptor or HLA molecule. Throughout this disclosure epitope and peptide are often used interchangeably.

It is to be appreciated that protein or peptide molecules that comprise an epitope of the invention as well as additional amino acid(s) are within the bounds of the invention. In certain embodiments, there is a limitation on the length of a peptide of the invention which is not otherwise a construct as defined herein. An embodiment that is length-limited occurs when the protein/peptide comprising an epitope of the invention comprises a region (i.e., a contiguous series of amino acids) having 100% identity with a native sequence. In order to avoid a recited definition of epitope from reading, e.g., on whole natural molecules, the length of any region that has 100% identity with a native peptide sequence is limited. Thus, for a peptide comprising an epitope of the invention and a region with 100% identity with a native peptide sequence (and which is not otherwise a construct), the region with 100% identity to a native sequence generally has a length of: less than or equal to 600 amino acids, often less than or equal to 500 amino acids, often less than or equal to 400 amino acids, often less than or equal to 250 amino acids, often less than or equal to 100 amino acids, often less than or equal to 85 amino acids, often less than or equal to 75 amino acids, often less than or equal to 65 amino acids, and often less than or equal to 50 amino acids. In certain embodiments, an “epitope” of the invention which is not a construct is comprised by a peptide having a region with less than 51 amino acids that has 100% identity to a native peptide sequence, in any increment of (50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5) down to 5 amino acids.

Certain peptide or protein sequences longer than 600 amino acids are within the scope of the invention. Such longer sequences are within the scope of the invention so long as they do not comprise any contiguous sequence of more than 600 amino acids that have 100% identity with a native peptide sequence, or if longer than 600 amino acids, they are a construct. For any peptide that has five contiguous residues or less that correspond to a native sequence, there is no limitation on the maximal length of that peptide in order to fall within the scope of the invention. It is presently preferred that a CTL epitope of the invention be less than 600 residues long in any increment down to eight amino acid residues.

“Human Leukocyte Antigen” or “HLA” is a human class I or class II Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) protein (see, e.g., Stites, et al., I MMUNOLOGY, 8^(TH) ED., Lange Publishing, Los Altos, Calif., 1994).

An “HLA supertype or family”, as used herein, describes sets of HLA molecules grouped on the basis of shared peptide-binding specificities. HLA class I molecules that share somewhat similar binding affinity for peptides bearing certain amino acid motifs are grouped into HLA supertypes. The terms HLA superfamily, HLA supertype family, HLA family, and HLA xx-like molecules (where xx denotes a particular HLA type), are synonyms.

Throughout this disclosure, results are expressed in terms of “IC₅₀'s.” IC₅₀ is the concentration of peptide in a binding assay at which 50% inhibition of binding of a reference peptide is observed. Given the conditions in which the assays are run (i.e., limiting HLA proteins and labeled peptide concentrations), these values approximate K_(D) values. Assays for determining binding are described in detail, e.g., in PCT publications WO 94/20127 and WO 94/03205. It should be noted that IC₅₀ values can change, often dramatically, if the assay conditions are varied, and depending on the particular reagents used (e.g., HLA preparation, etc.). For example, excessive concentrations of HLA molecules will increase the apparent measured IC₅₀ of a given ligand.

Alternatively, binding is expressed relative to a reference peptide. Although as a particular assay becomes more, or less, sensitive, the IC₅₀'s of the peptides tested may change somewhat, the binding relative to the reference peptide will not significantly change. For example, in an assay run under conditions such that the IC₅₀ of the reference peptide increases 10-fold, the IC₅₀ values of the test peptides will also shift approximately 10-fold. Therefore, to avoid ambiguities, the assessment of whether a peptide is a good, intermediate, weak, or negative binder is generally based on its IC₅₀, relative to the IC₅₀ of a standard peptide.

Binding may also be determined using other assay systems including those using: live cells (e.g., Ceppellini et al., Nature 339:392, 1989; Christnick et al., Nature 352:67, 1991; Busch et al., Int. Immunol. 2:443, 19990; Hill et al., J. Immunol. 147:189, 1991; del Guercio et al., J. Immunol. 154:685, 1995), cell free systems using detergent lysates (e.g., Cerundolo et al., J. Immunol. 21:2069, 1991), immobilized purified MHC (e.g., Hill et al., J. Immunol. 152, 2890, 1994; Marshall et al., J. Immunol. 152:4946, 1994), ELISA systems (e.g., Reay et al., EMBO J. 11:2829, 1992), surface plasmon resonance (e.g., Khilko et al., J. Biol. Chem. 268:15425, 1993); high flux soluble phase assays (Hammer et al., J. Exp. Med. 180:2353, 1994), and measurement of class I MHC stabilization or assembly (e.g., Ljunggren et al., Nature 346:476, 1990; Schumacher et al., Cell 62:563, 1990; Townsend et al., Cell 62:285, 1990; Parker et al., J. Immunol. 149:1896, 1992).

As used herein, “high affinity” with respect to HLA class I molecules is defined as binding with an IC₅₀, or K_(D) value, of 50 nM or less; “intermediate affinity” is binding with an IC₅₀ or K_(D) value of between about 50 and about 500 nM. “High affinity” with respect to binding to HLA class II molecules is defined as binding with an IC₅₀ or K_(D) value of 100 nM or less; “intermediate affinity” is binding with an IC₅₀ or K_(D) value of between about 100 and about 1000 nM.

The terms “identical” or percent “identity,” in the context of two or more peptide sequences, refer to two or more sequences or subsequences that are the same or have a specified percentage of amino acid residues that are the same, when compared and aligned for maximum correspondence over a comparison window, as measured using a sequence comparison algorithm or by manual alignment and visual inspection.

An “immunogenic peptide” or “peptide epitope” is a peptide that comprises an allele-specific motif or supermotif such that the peptide will bind an HLA molecule and induce a CTL and/or HTL response. Thus, immunogenic peptides of the invention are capable of binding to an appropriate HLA molecule and thereafter inducing an HLA-restricted cytotoxic or helper T cell response to the antigen from which the immunogenic peptide is derived.

The phrases “isolated” or “biologically pure” refer to material which is substantially or essentially free from components which normally accompany the material as it is found in its native state. Thus, isolated peptides in accordance with the invention preferably do not contain materials normally associated with the peptides in their in situ environment.

“Link” or “join” refers to any method known in the art for functionally connecting peptides, including, without limitation, recombinant fusion, covalent bonding, disulfide bonding, ionic bonding, hydrogen bonding, and electrostatic bonding.

“Major Histocompatibility Complex” or “MHC” is a cluster of genes that plays a role in control of the cellular interactions responsible for physiologic immune responses. In humans, the MHC complex is also known as the HLA complex. For a detailed description of the MHC and HLA complexes, see, Paul, FUNDAMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY, 3^(RD) ED., Raven Press, New York, 1993.

The term “motif” refers to the pattern of residues in a peptide of defined length, usually a peptide of from about 8 to about 13 amino acids, often 8 to 11 amino acids, for a class I HLA motif and from about 6 to about 25 amino acids for a class II HLA motif, which is recognized by a particular HLA molecule. Peptide motifs are typically different for each protein encoded by each human HLA allele and differ in the pattern of the primary and secondary anchor residues.

A “negative binding residue” or “deleterious residue” is an amino acid which, if present at certain positions (typically not primary anchor positions) in a peptide epitope, results in decreased binding affinity of the peptide for the peptide's corresponding HLA molecule.

A “non-native” sequence or “construct” refers to a sequence that is not found in nature, i.e., is “non-naturally occurring”. Such sequences include, e.g., peptides that are lipidated or otherwise modified, and polyepitopic compositions that contain epitopes that are not contiguous in a native protein sequence.

The term “peptide” is used interchangeably with “oligopeptide” in the present specification to designate a series of residues, typically L-amino acids, connected one to the other, typically by peptide bonds between the α-amino and carboxyl groups of adjacent amino acids. CTL-inducing peptides of the invention are often 13 residues or less in length and usually consist of between about 8 and about 11 residues, preferably 9 or 10 residues. HTL-inducing oligopeptides are often less than about 50 residues in length and usually consist of between about 6 and about 30 residues, more usually between about 12 and 25, and often between about 15 and 20 residues.

“Pharmaceutically acceptable” refers to a generally non-toxic, inert, and/or physiologically compatible composition.

A “pharmaceutical excipient” comprises a material such as an adjuvant, a carrier, pH-adjusting and buffering agents, tonicity adjusting agents, wetting agents, preservative, and the like.

A “primary anchor residue” is an amino acid at a specific position along a peptide sequence which is understood to provide a contact point between the immunogenic peptide and the HLA molecule. One to three, usually two, primary anchor residues within a peptide of defined length generally defines a “motif” for an immunogenic peptide. These residues are understood to fit in close contact with peptide binding grooves of an HLA molecule, with their side chains buried in specific pockets of the binding grooves themselves. In one embodiment, for example, the primary anchor residues are located at position 2 (from the amino terminal position) and at the carboxyl terminal position of a 9-residue peptide epitope in accordance with the invention. The primary anchor positions for each motif and supermotif are set forth in Table I. For example, analog peptides can be created by altering the presence or absence of particular residues in these primary anchor positions. Such analogs are used to modulate the binding affinity of a peptide comprising a particular motif or supermotif.

“Promiscuous recognition” is where a distinct peptide is recognized by the same T cell clone in the context of various HLA molecules. Promiscuous recognition or binding is synonymous with cross-reactive binding.

A “protective immune response” or “therapeutic immune response” refers to a CTL and/or an HTL response to an antigen derived from an infectious agent or a tumor antigen, which prevents or at least partially arrests disease symptoms or progression. The immune response may also include an antibody response which has been facilitated by the stimulation of helper T cells.

The term “residue” refers to an amino acid or amino acid mimetic incorporated into an oligopeptide by an amide bond or amide bond mimetic.

A “secondary anchor residue” is an amino acid at a position other than a primary anchor position in a peptide which may influence peptide binding. A secondary anchor residue occurs at a significantly higher frequency amongst bound peptides than would be expected by random distribution of amino acids at one position. The secondary anchor residues are said to occur at “secondary anchor positions.” A secondary anchor residue can be identified as a residue which is present at a higher frequency among high or intermediate affinity binding peptides, or a residue otherwise associated with high or intermediate affinity binding. For example, analog peptides can be created by altering the presence or absence of particular residues in these secondary anchor positions. Such analogs are used to finely modulate the binding affinity of a peptide comprising a particular motif or supermotif.

A “subdominant epitope” is an epitope which evokes little or no response upon immunization with whole antigens which comprise the epitope, but for which a response can be obtained by immunization with an isolated peptide, and this response (unlike the case of cryptic epitopes) is detected when whole protein is used to recall the response in vitro or in vivo.

A “supermotif” is a peptide binding specificity shared by HLA molecules encoded by two or more HLA alleles. Preferably, a supermotif-bearing peptide is recognized with high or intermediate affinity (as defined herein) by two or more HLA molecules.

“Synthetic peptide” refers to a peptide that is man-made using such methods as chemical synthesis or recombinant DNA technology.

As used herein, a “vaccine” is a composition that contains one or more peptides of the invention. There are numerous embodiments of vaccines in accordance with the invention, such as by a cocktail of one or more peptides; one or more epitopes of the invention comprised by a polyepitopic peptide; or nucleic acids that encode such peptides or polypeptides, e.g., a minigene that encodes a polyepitopic peptide. The “one or more peptides” can include any whole unit integer from 1-150, e.g., at least 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, or 150 or more peptides of the invention. The peptides or polypeptides can optionally be modified, such as by lipidation, addition of targeting or other sequences. HLA class I-binding peptides of the invention can be admixed with, or linked to, HLA class II-binding peptides, to facilitate activation of both cytotoxic T lymphocytes and helper T lymphocytes. Vaccines can also comprise peptide-pulsed antigen presenting cells, e.g., dendritic cells.

The nomenclature used to describe peptide compounds follows the conventional practice wherein the amino group is presented to the left (the N-terminus) and the carboxyl group to the right (the C-terminus) of each amino acid residue. When amino acid residue positions are referred to in a peptide epitope they are numbered in an amino to carboxyl direction with position one being the position closest to the amino terminal end of the epitope, or the peptide or protein of which it may be a part. In the formulae representing selected specific embodiments of the present invention, the amino- and carboxyl-terminal groups, although not specifically shown, are in the form they would assume at physiologic pH values, unless otherwise specified. In the amino acid structure formulae, each residue is generally represented by standard three letter or single letter designations. The L-form of an amino acid residue is represented by a capital single letter or a capital first letter of a three-letter symbol, and the D-form for those amino acids having D-forms is represented by a lower case single letter or a lower case three letter symbol. Glycine has no asymmetric carbon atom and is simply referred to as “Gly” or G. Symbols for the amino acids are shown below. In addition to these symbols, “B” in the single letter abbreviations used herein designates α-amino butyric acid. Single Letter Symbol Three Letter Symbol Amino Acids A Ala Alanine C Cys Cysteine D Asp Aspartic Acid E Glu Glutamic Acid F Phe Phenylalanine G Gly Glycine H His Histidine I Ile Isoleucine K Lys Lysine L Leu Leucine M Met Methionine N Asn Asparagine P Pro Proline Q Gln Glutamine R Arg Arginine S Ser Serine T Thr Threonine V Val Valine W Trp Tryptophan Y Tyr Tyrosine IV.B. Stimulation of CTL and HTL Responses

The mechanism by which T cells recognize antigens has been delineated during the past ten years. Based on our understanding of the immune system we have developed efficacious peptide epitope vaccine compositions that can induce a therapeutic or prophylactic immune response to a TAA in a broad population. For an understanding of the value and efficacy of the claimed compositions, a brief review of immunology-related technology is provided.

A complex of an HLA molecule and a peptidic antigen acts as the ligand recognized by HLA-restricted T cells (Buus, S. et al., Cell 47:1071, 1986; Babbitt, B. P. et al., Nature 317:359, 1985; Townsend, A. and Bodmer, H., Annu. Rev. Immunol. 7:601, 1989; Germain, R. N., Annu. Rev. Immunol. 11:403, 1993). Through the study of single amino acid substituted antigen analogs and the sequencing of endogenously bound, naturally processed peptides, critical residues that correspond to motifs required for specific binding to HLA antigen molecules have been identified and are described herein and are set forth in Tables I, II, and III (see also, e.g., Southwood, et al., J. Immunol. 160:3363, 1998; Rammensee, et al., Immunogenetics 41:178, 1995; Rammensee et al., SYFPEITHI, access via web at :http://134.2.96.221/scripts.hlaserver.dll/home.htm; Sette, A. and Sidney, J. Curr. Opin. Immunol. 10:478, 1998; Engelhard, V. H., Curr. Opin. Immunol. 6:13, 1994; Sette, A. and Grey, H. M., Curr. Opin. Immunol. 4:79, 1992; Sinigaglia, F. and Hammer, J. Curr. Biol. 6:52, 1994; Ruppert et al., Cell 74:929-937, 1993; Kondo et al., J. Immunol. 155:4307-4312, 1995; Sidney et al., J. Immunol. 157:3480-3490, 1996; Sidney et al., Human Immunol. 45:79-93, 1996; Sette, A. and Sidney, J. Immunogenetics, in press, 1999).

Furthermore, x-ray crystallographic analysis of HLA-peptide complexes has revealed pockets within the peptide binding cleft of HLA molecules which accommodate, in an allele-specific mode, residues borne by peptide ligands; these residues in turn determine the HLA binding capacity of the peptides in which they are present. (See, e.g., Madden, D. R. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 13:587, 1995; Smith, et al., Immunity 4:203, 1996; Fremont et al., Immunity 8:305, 1998; Stem et al., Structure 2:245, 1994; Jones, E. Y. Curr. Opin. Immunol. 9:75, 1997; Brown, J. H. et al., Nature 364:33, 1993; Guo, H. C. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:8053, 1993; Guo, H. C. et al., Nature 360:364, 1992; Silver, M. L. et al., Nature 360:367, 1992; Matsumura, M. et al., Science 257:927, 1992; Madden et al., Cell 70:1035, 1992; Fremont, D. H. et al., Science 257:919, 1992; Saper, M. A., Bjorkman, P. J. and Wiley, D. C., J. Mol. Biol. 219:277, 1991.)

Accordingly, the definition of class I and class II allele-specific HLA binding motifs, or class I or class II supermotifs allows identification of regions within a protein that have the potential of binding particular HLA molecules.

The present inventors have found that the correlation of binding affinity with immunogenicity, which is disclosed herein, is an important factor to be considered when evaluating candidate peptides. Thus, by a combination of motif searches and HLA-peptide binding assays, candidates for epitope-based vaccines have been identified. After determining their binding affinity, additional confirmatory work can be performed to select, amongst these vaccine candidates, epitopes with preferred characteristics in terms of population coverage, antigenicity, and immunogenicity.

Various strategies can be utilized to evaluate immunogenicity, including:

1) Evaluation of primary T cell cultures from normal individuals (see, e.g., Wentworth, P. A. et al., Mol. Immunol. 32:603, 1995; Celis, E. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:2105, 1994; Tsai, V. et al., J. Immunol. 158:1796, 1997; Kawashima, I. et. al., Human Immunol. 59:1, 1998); This procedure involves the stimulation of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from normal subjects with a test peptide in the presence of antigen presenting cells in vitro over a period of several weeks. T cells specific for the peptide become activated during this time and are detected using, e.g., a lymphokine-release or a ⁵¹Cr cytotoxicity assay involving peptide sensitized target cells.

2) Immunization of HLA transgenic mice (see, e.g., Wentworth, P. A. et al., J. Immunol. 26:97, 1996; Wentworth, P. A. et al., Int. Immunol. 8:651, 1996; Alexander, J. et al., J. Immunol. 159:4753, 1997); In this method, peptides in incomplete Freund's adjuvant are administered subcutaneously to HLA transgenic mice. Several weeks following immunization, splenocytes are removed and cultured in vitro in the presence of test peptide for approximately one week. Peptide-specific T cells are detected using, e.g., a ⁵¹Cr-release assay involving peptide sensitized target cells and target cells expressing endogenously generated antigen.

3) Demonstration of recall T cell responses from patients who have been effectively vaccinated or who have a tumor; (see, e.g., Rehermann, B. et al., J. Exp. Med. 181:1047, 1995; Doolan, D. L. et al., Immunity 7:97, 1997; Bertoni, R. et al., J. Clin. Invest. 100:503, 1997; Threlkeld, S. C. et al., J. Immunol. 159:1648, 1997; Diepolder, H. M. et al., J. Virol. 71:6011, 1997; Tsang et al., J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 87:982-990, 1995; Disis et al., J. Immunol. 156:3151-3158, 1996). In applying this strategy, recall responses are detected by culturing PBL from patients with cancer who have generated an immune response “naturally”, or from patients who were vaccinated with tumor antigen vaccines. PBL from subjects are cultured in vitro for 1-2 weeks in the presence of test peptide plus antigen presenting cells (APC) to allow activation of “memory” T cells, as compared to “naive” T cells. At the end of the culture period, T cell activity is detected using assays for T cell activity including ⁵¹Cr release involving peptide-sensitized targets, T cell proliferation, or lymphokine release.

The following describes the peptide epitopes and corresponding nucleic acids of the invention.

IV.C. Binding Affinity of Peptide Epitopes for HLA Molecules

As indicated herein, the large degree of HLA polymorphism is an important factor to be taken into account with the epitope-based approach to vaccine development. To address this factor, epitope selection encompassing identification of peptides capable of binding at high or intermediate affinity to multiple HLA molecules is preferably utilized, most preferably these epitopes bind at high or intermediate affinity to two or more allele-specific HLA molecules.

CTL-inducing peptides of interest for vaccine compositions preferably include those that have an IC₅₀ or binding affinity value for class I HLA molecules of 500 nM or better (i.e., the value is ≦500 nM). HTL-inducing peptides preferably include those that have an IC₅₀ or binding affinity value for class II HLA molecules of 1000 nM or better, (i.e., the value is ≦1,000 nM). For example, peptide binding is assessed by testing the capacity of a candidate peptide to bind to a purified HLA molecule in vitro. Peptides exhibiting high or intermediate affinity are then considered for further analysis. Selected peptides are tested on other members of the supertype family. In preferred embodiments, peptides that exhibit cross-reactive binding are then used in cellular screening analyses or vaccines.

High HLA binding affinity is correlated with greater immunogenicity (see, e.g., Sette, et al., J. Immunol. 153:5586-5592, 1994; Chen et al., J. Immunol. 152:2874-2881, 1994; and Ressing et al., J. Immunol. 154:5934-5943, 1995). Greater immunogenicity can be manifested in several different ways. Immunogenicity corresponds to whether an immune response is elicited at all, and to the vigor of any particular response, as well as to the extent of a population in which a response is elicited. For example, a peptide might elicit an immune response in a diverse array of the population, yet in no instance produce a vigorous response. Moreover, higher binding affinity peptides lead to more vigorous immunogenic responses. As a result, less peptide is required to elicit a similar biological effect if a high or intermediate affinity binding peptide is used. Thus, in preferred embodiments of the invention, high or intermediate affinity binding epitopes are particularly useful.

The relationship between binding affinity for HLA class I molecules and immunogenicity of discrete peptide epitopes on bound antigens has been determined for the first time in the art by the present inventors. The correlation between binding affinity and immunogenicity was analyzed in two different experimental approaches (see, e.g., Sette, et al., J. Immunol. 153:5586-5592, 1994). In the first approach, the immunogenicity of potential epitopes ranging in HLA binding affinity over a 10,000-fold range was analyzed in HLA-A*0201 transgenic mice. In the second approach, the antigenicity of approximately 100 different hepatitis B virus (HBV)-derived potential epitopes, all carrying A*0201 binding motifs, was assessed by using PBL from acute hepatitis patients. Pursuant to these approaches, it was determined that an affinity threshold value of approximately 500 nM (preferably 50 nM or less) determines the capacity of a peptide epitope to elicit a CTL response. These data are true for class I binding affinity measurements for naturally processed peptides and for synthesized T cell epitopes. These data also indicate the important role of determinant selection in the shaping of T cell responses (see, e.g., Schaeffer et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:4649-4653, 1989).

An affinity threshold associated with immunogenicity in the context of HLA class II DR molecules has also been delineated (see, e.g., Southwood et al. J. Immunology 160:3363-3373, 1998, and co-pending U.S. Ser. No. 09/009,953 filed Jan. 21, 1998). In order to define a biologically significant threshold of DR binding affinity, a database of the binding affinities of 32 DR-restricted epitopes for their restricting element (i.e., the HLA molecule that binds the motif) was compiled. In approximately half of the cases (15 of 32 epitopes), DR restriction was associated with high binding affinities, i.e. binding affinity values of 100 nM or less. In the other half of the cases (16 of 32), DR restriction was associated with intermediate affinity (binding affinity values in the 100-1000 nM range). In only one of 32 cases was DR restriction associated with an IC₅₀ of 1000 nM or greater. Thus, 1000 nM can be defined as an affinity threshold associated with immunogenicity in the context of DR molecules.

In the case of tumor-associated antigens, many CTL peptide epitopes that have been shown to induce CTL that lyse peptide-pulsed target cells and tumor cell targets endogenously expressing the epitope exhibit binding affinity or IC₅₀ values of 200 nM or less. In a study that evaluated the association of binding affinity and immunogenicity of a small set of such TAA epitopes, 100% (10/10) of the high binders, i.e., peptide epitopes binding at an affinity of 50 nM or less, were immunogenic and 80% (8/10) of them elicited CTLs that specifically recognized tumor cells. In the 51 to 200 nM range, very similar figures were obtained. With respect to analog peptides, CTL inductions positive for wildtype peptide and tumor cells were noted for 86% (6/7) and 71% (5/7) of the peptides, respectively. In the 201-500 nM range, most peptides (4/5 wildtype) were positive for induction of CTL recognizing wildtype peptide, but tumor recognition was not detected.

The binding affinity of peptides for HLA molecules can be determined as described in Example 1, below.

IV.D. Peptide Epitope Binding Motifs and Supermotifs

Through the study of single amino acid substituted antigen analogs and the sequencing of endogenously bound, naturally processed peptides, critical residues required for allele-specific binding to HLA molecules have been identified. The presence of these residues correlates with binding affinity for HLA molecules. The identification of motifs and/or supermotifs that correlate with high and intermediate affinity binding is an important issue with respect to the identification of immunogenic peptide epitopes for the inclusion in a vaccine. Kast et al. (J. Immunol. 152:3904-3912, 1994) have shown that motif-bearing peptides account for 90% of the epitopes that bind to allele-specific HLA class I molecules. In this study all possible peptides of 9 amino acids in length and overlapping by eight amino acids (240 peptides), which cover the entire sequence of the E6 and E7 proteins of human papillomavirus type 16, were evaluated for binding to five allele-specific HLA molecules that are expressed at high frequency among different ethnic groups. This unbiased set of peptides allowed an evaluation of the predictive value of HLA class I motifs. From the set of 240 peptides, 22 peptides were identified that bound to an allele-specific HLA molecule with high or intermediate affinity. Of these 22 peptides, 20 (i.e. 91%) were motif-bearing. Thus, this study demonstrates the value of motifs for the identification of peptide epitopes for inclusion in a vaccine: application of motif-based identification techniques will identify about 90% of the potential epitopes in a target antigen protein sequence.

Such peptide epitopes are identified in the Tables described below.

Peptides of the present invention may also comprise epitopes that bind to MHC class II DR molecules. A greater degree of heterogeneity in both size and binding frame position of the motif, relative to the N and C termini of the peptide, exists for class II peptide ligands. This increased heterogeneity of HLA class II peptide ligands is due to the structure of the binding groove of the HLA class II molecule which, unlike its class I counterpart, is open at both ends. Crystallographic analysis of HLA class II DRB*0101-peptide complexes showed that the major energy of binding is contributed by peptide residues complexed with complementary pockets on the DRB*0101 molecules. An important anchor residue engages the deepest hydrophobic pocket (see, e.g., Madden, D. R. Ann. Rev. Immunol. 13:587, 1995) and is referred to as position 1 (P1). P1 may represent the N-terminal residue of a class II binding peptide epitope, but more typically is flanked towards the N-terminus by one or more residues. Other studies have also pointed to an important role for the peptide residue in the 6^(th) position towards the C-terminus, relative to P1, for binding to various DR molecules.

In the past few years evidence has accumulated to demonstrate that a large fraction of HLA class I and class II molecules can be classified into a relatively few supertypes, each characterized by largely overlapping peptide binding repertoires, and consensus structures of the main peptide binding pockets. Thus, peptides of the present invention are identified by any one of several HLA-specific amino acid motifs (see, e.g., Tables I-III), or if the presence of the motif corresponds to the ability to bind several allele-specific HLA molecules, a supermotif. The HLA molecules that bind to peptides that possess a particular amino acid supermotif are collectively referred to as an HLA “supertype.”

The peptide motifs and supermotifs described below, and summarized in Tables I-III, provide guidance for the identification and use of peptide epitopes in accordance with the invention.

Examples of supermotif and/or motif-bearing peptide epitopes are shown in Tables VII-XX. To obtain the peptide epitope sequences, protein sequence data for the prostate cancer antigens PAP, PSA, PSM, and hK2, which is designated as kallikrein in Tables VII-XX, were evaluated for the presence of the designated supermotif or motif. The “Position” column indicates the position in the protein sequence that corresponds to the first amino acid residue of the putative epitope. The “number of amino acids” indicates the number of residues in the epitope sequence. The tables also include a binding affinity ratio listing for some of the peptide epitopes for the allele-specific HLA molecule indicated in the column heading. The ratio may be converted to IC₅₀ by using the following formula: IC₅₀ of the standard peptide/ratio=IC₅₀ of the test peptide (i.e., the peptide epitope). The IC₅₀ values of standard peptides used to determine binding affinities for Class I peptides are shown in Table IV. The IC₅₀ values of standard peptides used to determine binding affinities for Class II peptides are shown in Table V. The peptides used as standards for the binding assays described herein are examples of standards; alternative standard peptides can also be used when performing binding studies.

HLA Class I Motifs Indicative of CTL Inducing Peptide Epitopes:

The primary anchor residues of the HLA class I peptide epitope supermotifs and motifs delineated below are summarized in Table I. The HLA class I motifs set out in Table I(a) are those most particularly relevant to the invention claimed here. Primary and secondary anchor positions are summarized in Table II. Allele-specific HLA molecules that comprise HLA class I supertype families are listed in Table VI. In some cases, peptide epitopes may be listed in both a motif and a supermotif Table. The relationship of a particular motif and respective supermotif is indicated in the description of the individual motifs.

IV.D.1. HLA-A1 Supermotif

The HLA-A1 supermotif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of a small (T or S) or hydrophobic (L, I, V, or M) primary anchor residue in position 2, and an aromatic (Y, F, or W) primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope. The corresponding family of HLA molecules that bind to the A1 supermotif (i.e., the HLA-A1 supertype) is comprised of at least: A*0101, A*2601, A*2602, A*2501, and A*3201 (see, e.g., DiBrino, M. et al., J. Immunol. 151:5930, 1993; DiBrino, M. et al., J. Immunol. 152:620, 1994; Kondo, A. et al., Immunogenetics 45:249, 1997). Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the A1 superfamily are shown in Table VI. Peptides binding to each of the individual HLA proteins can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise an A1 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table VII.

IV.D.2. HLA-A2 Supermotif

Primary anchor specificities for allele-specific HLA-A2.1 molecules (see, e.g., Falk et al., Nature 351:290-296, 1991; Hunt et al., Science 255:1261-1263, 1992; Parker et al., J. Immunol. 149:3580-3587, 1992; Ruppert et al., Cell 74:929-937, 1993) and cross-reactive binding among HLA-A2 and -A28 molecules have been described. (See, e.g., Fruci et al, Human Immunol. 38:187-192, 1993; Tanigaki et al., Human Immunol. 39:155-162, 1994; Del Guercio et al., J. Immunol. 154:685-693, 1995; Kast et al., J. Immunol. 152:3904-3912, 1994 for reviews of relevant data.) These primary anchor residues define the HLA-A2 supermotif; which presence in peptide ligands corresponds to the ability to bind several different HLA-A2 and -A28 molecules. The HLA-A2 supermotif comprises peptide ligands with L, I, V, M, A, T, or Q as a primary anchor-residue at position 2 and L, I, V, M, A, or T as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope.

The corresponding family of HLA molecules (i.e., the HLA-A2 supertype that binds these peptides) is comprised of at least: A*0201, A*0202, A*0203, A*0204, A*0205, A*0206, A*0207, A*0209, A*0214, A*6802, and A*6901. Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the A2 superfamily are shown in Table VI. As explained in detail below, binding to each of the individual allele-specific HLA molecules can be modulated by substitutions at the primary anchor and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise an A2 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table VIII. The motifs comprising the primary anchor residues V, A, T, or Q at position 2 and L, I, V, A, or T at the C-terminal position are those most particularly relevant to the invention claimed herein.

IV.D.3. HLA-A3 Supermotif

The HLA-A3 supermotif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of A, L, I, V, M, S, or, T as a primary anchor at position 2, and a positively charged residue, R or K, at the C-terminal position of the epitope, e.g., in position 9 of 9-mers (see, e.g., Sidney et al., Hum. Immunol. 45:79, 1996). Exemplary members of the corresponding family of HLA molecules (the HLA-A3 supertype) that bind the A3 supermotif include at least: A*0301, A*1101, A*3101, A*3301, and A*6801. Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the A3 supertype are shown in Table VI. As explained in detail below, peptide binding to each of the individual allele-specific HLA proteins can be modulated by substitutions of amino acids at the primary and/or secondary anchor positions of the peptide, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the A3 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table IX.

IV.D.4. HLA-A24 Supermotif

The HLA-A24 supermotif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of an aromatic (F, W, or Y) or hydrophobic aliphatic (L, I, V, M, or T) residue as a primary anchor in position 2, and Y, F, W, L, I, or M as primary anchor at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Sette and Sidney, Immunogenetics, in press, 1999). The corresponding family of HLA molecules that bind to the A24 supermotif (i.e., the A24 supertype) includes at least: A*2402, A*3001, and A*2301. Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the A24 supertype are shown in Table VI. Peptide binding to each of the allele-specific HLA molecules can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the A24 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table X.

IV.D.5. HLA-B7 Supermotif

The HLA-B7 supermotif is characterized by peptides bearing proline in position 2 as a primary anchor, and a hydrophobic or aliphatic amino acid (L, I, V, M, A, F, W, or Y) as the primary anchor at the C-terminal position of the epitope. The corresponding family of HLA molecules that bind the B7 supermotif (i.e., the HLA-B7 supertype) is comprised of at least twenty six HLA-B proteins comprising at least: B*0702, B*0703, B*0704, B*0705, B*1508, B*3501, B*3502, B*3503, B*3504, B*3505, B*3506, B*3507, B*3508, B*5101, B*5102, B*5103, B*5104, B*5105, B*5301, B*5401, B*5501, B*5502, B*5601, B*5602, B*6701, and B*7801 (see, e.g., Sidney, et al., J. Immunol. 154:247, 1995; Barber, et al., Curr. Biol. 5:179, 1995; Hill, et al., Nature 360:434, 1992; Rammensee, et al., Immunogenetics 41:178, 1995 for reviews of relevant data). Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the B7 supertype are shown in Table VI. As explained in detail below, peptide binding to each of the individual allele-specific HLA proteins can be modulated by substitutions at the primary and/or secondary anchor positions of the peptide, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the B7 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table XI.

IV.D.6. HLA-B27 Supermotif

The HLA-B27 supermotif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of a positively charged (R, H, or K) residue as a primary anchor at position 2, and a hydrophobic (F, Y, L, W, M, I, A, or V) residue as a primary anchor at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Sidney and Sette, Immunogenetics, in press, 1999). Exemplary members of the corresponding family of HLA molecules that bind to the B27 supermotif (i.e., the B27 supertype) include at least B*1401, B*1402, B*1509, B*2702, B*2703, B*2704, B*2705, B*2706, B*3801, B*3901, B*3902, and B*7301. Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the B27 supertype are shown in Table VI. Peptide binding to each of the allele-specific HLA molecules can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the B27 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table XII.

IV.D.7. HLA-B44 Supermotif

The HLA-B44 supermotif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of negatively charged (D or E) residues as a primary anchor in position 2, and hydrophobic residues (F, W, Y, L, I, M, V, or A) as a primary anchor at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Sidney et al., Immunol. Today 17:261, 1996). Exemplary members of the corresponding family of HLA molecules that bind to the B44 supermotif (i.e., the B44 supertype) include at least: B*1801, B*1802, B*3701, B*4001, B*4002, B*4006, B*4402, B*4403, and B*4404. Peptide binding to each of the allele-specific HLA molecules can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions; preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

IV.D.8. HLA-B58 Supermotif

The HLA-B58 supermotif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of a small aliphatic residue (A, S, or T) as a primary anchor residue at position 2, and an aromatic or hydrophobic residue (F, W, Y, L, I, V, M, or A) as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Sidney and Sette, Immunogenetics, in press, 1999 for reviews of relevant data). Exemplary members of the corresponding family of HLA molecules that bind to the B58 supermotif (i.e., the B58 supertype) include at least: B*1516, B*1517, B*5701, B*5702, and B*5801. Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the B58 supertype are shown in Table VI. Peptide binding to each of the allele-specific HLA molecules can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the B27 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table XII.

IV.D.9. HLA-B62 Supermotif

The HLA-B62 supermotif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of the polar aliphatic residue Q or a hydrophobic aliphatic residue (L, V, M, I, or P) as a primary anchor in position 2, and a hydrophobic residue (F, W, Y, M, I, V, L, or A) as a primary anchor at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Sidney and Sette, Immunogenetics, in press, 1999). Exemplary members of the corresponding family of HLA molecules that bind to the B62 supermotif (i.e., the B62 supertype) include at least: B*1501, B*1502, B*1513, and B5201. Other allele-specific HLA molecules predicted to be members of the B62 supertype are shown in Table VI. Peptide binding to each of the allele-specific HLA molecules can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the B62 supermotif are set forth on the attached Table XIV.

IV.D.10. HLA-A1 Motif

The HLA-A1 motif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of T, S, or M as a primary anchor residue at position 2 and the presence of Y as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope. An alternative allele-specific A1 motif is characterized by a primary anchor residue at position 3 rather than position 2. This motif is characterized by the presence of D, E, A, or S as a primary anchor residue in position 3, and a Y as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., DiBrino et al., J. Immunol., 152:620, 1994; Kondo et al., Immunogenetics 45:249, 1997; and Kubo et al., J. Immunol. 152:3913, 1994 for reviews of relevant data). Peptide binding to HLA-A1 can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the motif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise either A1 motif are set forth on the attached Table XV. Those epitopes comprising T, S, or M at position 2 and Y at the C-terminal position are also included in the listing of HLA-A1 supermotif-bearing peptide epitopes listed in Table VII, as these residues are a subset of the A1 supermotif.

IV.D.11. HLA-A*0201 Motif

An HLA-A2*0201 motif was determined to be characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of L or M as a primary anchor residue in position 2, and L or V as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of a 9-residue peptide (see, e.g., Falk et al., Nature 351:290-296, 1991) and was further found to comprise an I at position 2 and I or A at the C-terminal position of a nine amino acid peptide (see, e.g., Hunt et al., Science 255:1261-1263, Mar. 6, 1992; Parker et al., J. Immunol. 149:3580-3587, 1992). The A*0201 allele-specific motif has also been defined by the present inventors to additionally comprise V, A, T, or Q as a primary anchor residue at position 2, and M or T as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Kast et al., J. Immunol. 152:3904-3912, 1994). Thus, the HLA-A*0201 motif comprises peptide ligands with L, I, V, M, A, T, or Q as primary anchor residues at position 2 and L, I, V, M, A, or T as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope. The preferred and tolerated residues that characterize the primary anchor positions of the HLA-A*0201 motif are identical to the residues describing the A2 supermotif. (For reviews of relevant data, see, e.g., del Guercio et al., J. Immunol. 154:685-693, 1995; Ruppert et al., Cell 74:929-937, 1993; Sidney et al., Immunol. Today 17:261-266, 1996; Sette and Sidney, Curr. Opin. in Immunol. 10:478-482, 1998). Secondary anchor residues that characterize the A*0201 motif have additionally been defined (see, e.g., Ruppert et al., Cell 74:929-937, 1993). These are shown in Table II. Peptide binding to HLA-A*0201 molecules can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the motif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise an A*0201 motif are set forth on the attached Table VII. The A*0201 motifs comprising the primary anchor residues V, A, T, or Q at position 2 and L, I, V, A, or T at the C-terminal position are those most particularly relevant to the invention claimed herein.

IV.D.12. HLA-A3 Motif

The HLA-A3 motif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of L, M, V, I, S, A, T, F, C, G, or D as a primary anchor residue at position 2, and the presence of K, Y, R, H, F, or A as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., DiBrino et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 90:1508, 1993; and Kubo et al., J. Immunol. 152:3913-3924, 1994). Peptide binding to HLA-A3 can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the motif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the A3 motif are set forth on the attached Table XVI. Those epitopes that comprise the A3 supermotif are also listed in Table IX, as the A3 supermotif primary anchor residues comprise a subset of the A3- and A11-allele-specific motifs.

IV.D.13. HLA-A11 Motif

The HLA-A11 motif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of V, T, M, L, I, S, A, G, N, C, D, or F as a primary anchor residue in position 2, and K, k, Y, or H as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Zhang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 90:2217-2221, 1993; and Kubo et al., J. Immunol. 152:3913-3924, 1994). Peptide binding to HLA-A11 can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the motif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the A1 I motif are set forth on the attached Table XVII; peptide epitopes comprising the A3 allele-specific motif are also present in this Table because of the extensive overlap between the A3 and A11 motif primary anchor specificities. Further, those peptide epitopes that comprise the A3 supermotif are also listed in Table IX.

IV.D.14. HLA-A24 Motif

The HLA-A24 motif is characterized by the presence in peptide ligands of Y, F, W, or M as a primary anchor residue in position 2, and F, L, I, or W as a primary anchor residue at the C-terminal position of the epitope (see, e.g., Kondo et al., J. Immunol. 155:4307-4312, 1995; and Kubo et al., J. Immunol. 152:3913-3924, 1994). Peptide binding to HLA-A24 molecules can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions; preferably choosing respective residues specified for the motif.

Representative peptide epitopes that comprise the A24 motif are set forth on the attached Table XVIII. These epitopes are also listed in Table X, which sets forth HLA-A24-supermotif-bearing peptide epitopes, as the primary anchor residues characterizing the A24 allele-specific motif comprise a subset of the A24 supermotif primary anchor residues.

Motifs Indicative of Class II HTL Inducing Peptide Epitopes

The primary and secondary anchor residues of the HLA class II peptide epitope supermotifs and motifs delineated below are summarized in Table III.

IV.D.15. HLA DR-1-4-7 Supermotif

Motifs have also been identified for peptides that bind to three common HLA class II allele-specific HLA molecules: HLA DRB1*0401, DRB1*0101, and DRB1*0701 (see, e.g., the review by Southwood et al. J. Immunology 160:3363-3373, 1998). Collectively, the common residues from these motifs delineate the HLA DR-1-4-7 supermotif. Peptides that bind to these DR molecules carry a supermotif characterized by a large aromatic or hydrophobic residue (Y, F, W, L, I, V, or M) as a primary anchor residue in position 1, and a small, non-charged residue (S, T, C, A, P, V, I, L, or M) as a primary anchor residue in position 6 of a 9-mer core region. Allele-specific secondary effects and secondary anchors for each of these HLA types have also been identified (Southwood et al., supra). These are set forth in Table III. Peptide binding to HLA-DRB1*0401, DRB1*0101, and/or DRB1*0701 can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the supermotif.

Representative 9-mer epitopes comprising the DR-1-4-7 supermotif, wherein position 1 of the supermotif is at position 1 of the nine-residue core, are set forth in Table XIX. Respective exemplary peptide epitopes of 15 amino acid residues in length, each of which comprise a conserved nine residue core, are also shown in the Table.

IV.D.16. HLA-DR3 Motifs

Two alternative motifs (i.e., submotifs) characterize peptide epitopes that bind to HLA-DR3 molecules (see, e.g., Geluk et al., J. Immunol. 152:5742, 1994). In the first motif (submotif DR3a) a large, hydrophobic residue (L, I, V, M, F, or Y) is present in anchor position 1 of a 9-mer core, and D is present as an anchor at position 4, towards the carboxyl terminus of the epitope. As in other class II motifs, core position 1 may or may not occupy the peptide N-terminal position.

The alternative DR3 submotif provides for lack of the large, hydrophobic residue at anchor position 1, and/or lack of the negatively charged or amide-like anchor residue at position 4, by the presence of a positive charge at position 6 towards the carboxyl terminus of the epitope. Thus, for the alternative allele-specific DR3 motif (submotif DR3b): L, I, V, M, F, Y, A, or Y is present at anchor position 1; D, N, Q, E, S, or T is present at anchor position 4; and K, R, or H is present at anchor position 6. Peptide binding to HLA-DR3 can be modulated by substitutions at primary and/or secondary anchor positions, preferably choosing respective residues specified for the motif.

Peptide epitope 9-mer core regions corresponding to a nine residue sequence comprising the DR3a or the DR3b submotifs (wherein position 1 of the motif is at position 1 of the nine residue core) are set forth in Table XXa and b. Respective exemplary peptide epitopes of 15 amino acid residues in length, each of which comprise a conserved nine residue core, are also shown in Table XX.

Each of the HLA class I or class II peptide epitopes identified as described herein is deemed singly to be an inventive aspect of this application. Further, it is also an inventive aspect of this application that each peptide epitope may be used in combination with any other peptide epitope.

IV.E. Enhancing Population Coverage of the Vaccine

Vaccines that have broad population coverage are preferred because they are more commercially viable and generally applicable to the most people. Broad population coverage can be obtained using the peptides of the invention (and/or nucleic acid compositions that encode such peptides) through selecting peptide epitopes that bind to HLA alleles which, when considered in total, are present in most of the population. Table XXI shows the overall frequencies of HLA class I supertypes in various ethnicities (Table XXIa) and the combined population coverage achieved by the A2-, A3-, and B7-supertypes (Table XXIb). The A2-, A3-, and B7 supertypes are each present on average of over 40% in each of these five major ethnic groups. Coverage in excess of 80% is achieved with a combination of these supermotifs. These results suggest that effective and non-ethnically biased population coverage is achieved upon use of a limited number of cross-reactive peptides. Although the population coverage reached with these three main peptide specificities is high, coverage can be expanded to reach 95% population coverage and above, and more easily achieve truly multispecific responses upon use of additional supermotif or allele-specific motif bearing peptides.

The B44-, A1-, and A24-supertypes are each present, on average, in a range from 25% to 40% in these major ethnic populations (Table XXIa). While less prevalent overall, the B27-, B58-, and B62 supertypes are each present with a frequency >25% in at least one major ethnic group (Table XXIa). Table XXIb summarizes the estimated prevalence of combinations of HLA supertypes that have been identified in five major ethnic groups; the incremental coverage obtained by the inclusion of A1,- A24-, and B44-supertypes to the A2, A3, and B7 coverage; and coverage obtained with all of the supertypes described herein, is shown.

The data presented herein, together with the previous definition of the A2-, A3-, and B7-supertypes, indicates that all antigens, with the possible exception of A29, B8, and B46, can be classified into a total of nine HLA supertypes. By including epitopes from the six most frequent supertypes, an average population coverage of 99% is obtained for five major ethnic groups.

IV.F. Immune Response-Stimulating Peptide Analogs

In general, CTL and HTL responses to whole antigens are not directed against all possible epitopes. Rather, they are restricted to a few “immunodominant” determinants (Zinkemagel, et al., Adv. Immunol. 27:5159, 1979; Bennink, et al., J. Exp. Med. 168:1935-1939, 1988; Rawle, et al., J. Immunol. 146:3977-3984, 1991). It has been recognized that immunodominance (Benacerraf, et al., Science 175:273-279, 1972) could be explained by either the ability of a given epitope to selectively bind a particular HLA protein (determinant selection theory) (Vitiello, et al., J. Immunol. 131:1635, 1983); Rosenthal, et al., Nature 267:156-158, 1977), or to be selectively recognized by the existing TCR (T cell receptor) specificities (repertoire theory) (Klein, J., IMMUNOLOGY, THE SCIENCE OF SELF/NONSELF DISCRIMINATION, John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 270-310, 1982). It has been demonstrated that additional factors, mostly linked to processing events, can also play a key role in dictating, beyond strict immunogenicity, which of the many potential determinants will be presented as immunodominant (Sercarz, et al., Annu. Rev. Immunol. 11:729-766, 1993).

Because tissue specific and developmental TAAs are expressed on normal tissue at least at some point in time or location within the body, it may be expected that T cells to them, particularly dominant epitopes, are eliminated during immunological surveillance and that tolerance is induced. However, CTL responses to tumor epitopes in both normal donors and cancer patient have been detected, which may indicate that tolerance is incomplete (see, e.g., Kawashima et al., Hum. Immunol. 59:1, 1998; Tsang, J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 87:82-90, 1995; Rongcun et al., J. Immunol. 163:1037, 1999). Thus, immune tolerance does not completely eliminate or inactivate CTL precursors capable of recognizing high affinity HLA class I binding peptides.

An additional strategy to overcome tolerance is to use analog peptides. Without intending to be bound by theory, it is believed that because T cells to dominant epitopes may have been clonally deleted, selecting subdominant epitopes may allow existing T cells to be recruited, which will then lead to a therapeutic or prophylactic response. However, the binding of HLA molecules to subdominant epitopes is often less vigorous than to dominant ones. Accordingly, there is a need to be able to modulate the binding affinity of particular immunogenic epitopes for one or more HLA molecules, and thereby to modulate the immune response elicited by the peptide, for example to prepare analog peptides which elicit a more vigorous response.

Although peptides with suitable cross-reactivity among all alleles of a superfamily are identified by the screening procedures described above, cross-reactivity is not always as complete as possible, and in certain cases procedures to increase cross-reactivity of peptides can be useful; moreover, such procedures can also be used to modify other properties of the peptides such as binding affinity or peptide stability. Having established the general rules that govern cross-reactivity of peptides for HLA alleles within a given motif or supermotif, modification (i.e., analoging) of the structure of peptides of particular interest in order to achieve broader (or otherwise modified) HLA binding capacity can be performed. More specifically, peptides which exhibit the broadest cross-reactivity patterns, can be produced in accordance with the teachings herein. The present concepts related to analog generation are set forth in greater detail in co-pending U.S. Ser. No. 09/226,775 filed Jan. 6, 1999.

In brief, the strategy employed utilizes the motifs or supermotifs which correlate with binding to certain HLA molecules. The motifs or supermotifs are defined by having primary anchors, and in many cases secondary anchors. Analog peptides can be created by substituting amino acid residues at primary anchor, secondary anchor, or at primary and secondary anchor positions. Generally, analogs are made for peptides that already bear a motif or supermotif. Preferred secondary anchor residues of supermotifs and motifs that have been defined for HLA class I and class II binding peptides are shown in Tables II and III, respectively.

For a number of the motifs or supermotifs in accordance with the invention, residues are defined which are deleterious to binding to allele-specific HLA molecules or members of HLA supertypes that bind the respective motif or supermotif (Tables II and III). Accordingly, removal of such residues that are detrimental to binding can be performed in accordance with the present invention. For example, in the case of the A3 supertype, when all peptides that have such deleterious residues are removed from the population of peptides used in the analysis, the incidence of cross-reactivity increased from 22% to 37% (see, e.g., Sidney, J. et al., Hu. Immunol. 45:79, 1996). Thus, one strategy to improve the cross-reactivity of peptides within a given supermotif is simply to delete one or more of the deleterious residues present within a peptide and substitute a small “neutral” residue such as Ala (that may not influence T cell recognition of the peptide). An enhanced likelihood of cross-reactivity is expected if, together with elimination of detrimental residues within a peptide, “preferred” residues associated with high affinity binding to an allele-specific HLA molecule or to multiple HLA molecules within a superfamily are inserted.

To ensure that an analog peptide, when used as a vaccine, actually elicits a CTL response to the native epitope in vivo (or, in the case of class II epitopes, elicits helper T cells that cross-react with the wild type peptides), the analog peptide may be used to immunize T cells in vitro from individuals of the appropriate HLA allele. Thereafter, the immunized cells' capacity to induce lysis of wild type peptide sensitized target cells is evaluated. It will be desirable to use as antigen presenting cells, cells that have been either infected, or transfected with the appropriate genes, or, in the case of class II epitopes, cells that have been pulsed with whole protein antigens, to establish whether endogenously produced antigen is also recognized by the relevant T cells.

Another embodiment of the invention is to create analogs of weak binding peptides, to thereby ensure adequate numbers of cross-reactive cellular binders. Class I binding peptides exhibiting binding affinities of 500-5000 nM, and carrying an acceptable but suboptimal primary anchor residue at one or both positions can be “fixed” by substituting preferred anchor residues in accordance with the respective supertype. The analog peptides can then be tested for crossbinding activity.

Another embodiment for generating effective peptide analogs involves the substitution of residues that have an adverse impact on peptide stability or solubility in, e.g., a liquid environment. This substitution may occur at any position of the peptide epitope. For example, a cysteine can be substituted out in favor of α-amino butyric acid (“B” in the single letter abbreviations for peptide sequences listed herein). Due to its chemical nature, cysteine has the propensity to form disulfide bridges and sufficiently alter the peptide structurally so as to reduce binding capacity. Substituting α-amino butyric acid for cysteine not only alleviates this problem, but actually improves binding and crossbinding capability in certain instances (see, e.g., the review by Sette et al., In: Persistent Viral Infections, Eds. R. Ahmed and I. Chen, John Wiley & Sons, England, 1999).

IV.G. Computer Screening of Protein Sequences from Disease-Related Antigens for Supermotif- or Motif-Bearing Peptides

In order to identify supermotif- or motif-bearing epitopes in a target antigen, a native protein sequence, e.g., a tumor-associated antigen, or sequences from an infectious organism, or a donor tissue for transplantation, is screened using a means for computing, such as an intellectual calculation or a computer, to determine the presence of a supermotif or motif within the sequence. The information obtained from the analysis of native peptide can be used directly to evaluate the status of the native peptide or may be utilized subsequently to generate the peptide epitope.

Computer programs that allow the rapid screening of protein sequences for the occurrence of the subject supermotifs or motifs are encompassed by the present invention; as are programs that permit the generation of analog peptides. These programs are implemented to analyze any identified amino acid sequence or operate on an unknown sequence and simultaneously determine the sequence and identify motif-bearing epitopes thereof; analogs can be simultaneously determined as well. Generally, the identified sequences will be from a pathogenic organism or a tumor-associated peptide. In the present invention, the target TAA molecules include, without limitation, PSA, PSM, PAP, and hK2.

It is important that the selection criteria utilized for prediction of peptide binding are as accurate as possible, to correlate most efficiently with actual binding. Prediction of peptides that bind, for example, to HLA-A*0201, on the basis of the presence of the appropriate primary anchors, is positive at about a 30% rate (see, e.g., Ruppert, J. et al. Cell 74:929, 1993). However, by extensively analyzing peptide-HLA binding data disclosed herein, data in related patent applications, and data in the art, the present inventors have developed a number of allele-specific polynomial algorithms that dramatically increase the predictive value over identification on the basis of the presence of primary anchor residues alone. These algorithms take into account not only the presence or absence of primary anchors, but also consider the positive or deleterious presence of secondary anchor residues (to account for the impact of different amino acids at different positions). The algorithms are essentially based on the premise that the overall affinity (or ΔG) of peptide-HLA interactions can be approximated as a linear polynomial function of the type: ΔG=a _(1i) ×a _(2i) ×a _(3i) . . . ×a _(ni) where a_(ji) is a coefficient that represents the effect of the presence of a given amino acid (j) at a given position (i) along the sequence of a peptide of n amino acids. An important assumption of this method is that the effects at each position are essentially independent of each other. This assumption is justified by studies that demonstrated that peptides are bound to HLA molecules and recognized by T cells in essentially an extended conformation. Derivation of specific algorithm coefficients has been described, for example, in Gulukota, K. et al., J. Mol. Biol. 267:1258, 1997.

Additional methods to identify preferred peptide sequences, which also make use of specific motifs, include the use of neural networks and molecular modeling programs (see, e.g., Milik et al., Nature Biotechnology 16:753, 1998; Altuvia et al., Hum. Immunol. 58:1, 1997; Altuvia et al, J. Mol. Biol. 249:244, 1995; Buus, S. Curr. Opin. Immunol. 11:209-213, 1999; Brusic, V. et al., Bioinformatics 14:121-130, 1998; Parker et al., J. Immunol. 152:163, 1993; Meister et al., Vaccine 13:581, 1995; Hammer et al., J. Exp. Med. 180:2353, 1994; Sturniolo et al., Nature Biotechnol. 17:555 1999).

For example, it has been shown that in sets of A*0201 motif-bearing peptides containing at least one preferred secondary anchor residue while avoiding the presence of any deleterious secondary anchor residues, 69% of the peptides will bind A*0201 with an IC₅₀ less than 500 nM (Ruppert, J. et al. Cell 74:929, 1993). These algorithms are also flexible in that cut-off scores may be adjusted to select sets of peptides with greater or lower predicted binding properties, as desired.

In utilizing computer screening to identify peptide epitopes, a protein sequence or translated sequence may be analyzed using software developed to search for motifs, for example the “FINDPATTERNS’ program (Devereux, et al. Nucl. Acids Res. 12:387-395, 1984) or MotifSearch 1.4 software program (D. Brown, San Diego, Calif.) to identify potential peptide sequences containing appropriate HLA binding motifs. The identified peptides can be scored using customized polynomial algorithms to predict their capacity to bind specific HLA class I or class II alleles. As appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art, a large array of computer programming software and hardware options are available in the relevant art which can be employed to implement the motifs of the invention in order to evaluate (e.g., without limitation, to identify epitopes, identify epitope concentration per peptide length, or to generate analogs) known or unknown peptide sequences.

In accordance with the procedures described above, prostate cancer-associated antigen peptide epitopes and analogs thereof that are able to bind HLA supertype groups or allele-specific HLA molecules are identified.

IV.H. Preparation of Peptide Epitopes

Peptides in accordance with the invention can be prepared synthetically, by recombinant DNA technology or chemical synthesis, or from natural sources such as native tumors or pathogenic organisms. Peptide epitopes may be synthesized individually or as polyepitopic peptides. Although the peptide will preferably be substantially free of other naturally occurring host cell proteins and fragments thereof, in some embodiments the peptides may be synthetically conjugated to native fragments or particles.

The peptides in accordance with the invention can be a variety of lengths, and either in their neutral (uncharged) forms or in forms which are salts. The peptides in accordance with the invention are either free of modifications such as glycosylation, side chain oxidation, or phosphorylation; or they contain these modifications, subject to the condition that modifications do not destroy the biological activity of the peptides as described herein.

When possible, it may be desirable to optimize HLA class I binding epitopes of the invention, such as can be used in a polyepitopic construct, to a length of about 8 to about 13 amino acid residues, often 8 to 11, preferably 9 to 10. HLA class II binding peptide epitopes of the invention may be optimized to a length of about 6 to about 30 amino acids in length, preferably to between about 13 and about 20 residues. Preferably, the peptide epitopes are commensurate in size with endogenously processed pathogen-derived peptides or tumor cell peptides that are bound to the relevant HLA molecules, however, the identification and preparation of peptides that comprise epitopes of the invention can also be carried out using the techniques described herein.

In alternative embodiments, epitopes of the invention can be linked as a polyepitopic peptide, or as a minigene that encodes a polyepitopic peptide.

In another embodiment, it is preferred to identify native peptide regions that contain a high concentration of class I and/or class II epitopes. Such a sequence is generally selected on the basis that it contains the greatest number of epitopes per amino acid length. It is to be appreciated that epitopes can be present in a nested or overlapping manner, e.g. a 10 amino acid long peptide could contain two 9 amino acid long epitopes and one 10 amino acid long epitope; upon intracellular processing, each epitope can be exposed and bound by an HLA molecule upon administration of such a peptide. This larger, preferably multi-epitopic, peptide can be generated synthetically, recombinantly, or via cleavage from the native source.

The peptides of the invention can be prepared in a wide variety of ways. For the preferred relatively short size, the peptides can be synthesized in solution or on a solid support in accordance with conventional techniques. Various automatic synthesizers are commercially available and can be used in accordance with known protocols. (See, for example, Stewart & Young, SOLID PHASE PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS, 2D. ED., Pierce Chemical Co., 1984). Further, individual peptide epitopes can be joined using chemical ligation to produce larger peptides that are still within the bounds of the invention.

Alternatively, recombinant DNA technology can be employed wherein a nucleotide sequence which encodes an immunogenic peptide of interest is inserted into an expression vector, transformed or transfected into an appropriate host cell and cultivated under conditions suitable for expression. These procedures are generally known in the art, as described generally in Sambrook et al., MOLECULAR CLONING, A LABORATORY MANUAL, Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. (1989). Thus, recombinant polypeptides which comprise one or more peptide sequences of the invention can be used to present the appropriate T cell epitope.

The nucleotide coding sequence for peptide epitopes of the preferred lengths contemplated herein can be synthesized by chemical techniques, for example, the phosphotriester method of Matteucci, et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 103:3185 (1981). Peptide analogs can be made simply by substituting the appropriate and desired nucleic acid base(s) for those that encode the native peptide sequence; exemplary nucleic acid substitutions are those that encode an amino acid defined by the motifs/supermotifs herein. The coding sequence can then be provided with appropriate linkers and ligated into expression vectors commonly available in the art, and the vectors used to transform suitable hosts to produce the desired fusion protein. A number of such vectors and suitable host systems are now available. For expression of the fusion proteins, the coding sequence will be provided with operably linked start and stop codons, promoter and terminator regions and usually a replication system to provide an expression vector for expression in the desired cellular host. For example, promoter sequences compatible with bacterial hosts are provided in plasmids containing convenient restriction sites for insertion of the desired coding sequence. The resulting expression vectors are transformed into suitable bacterial hosts. Of course, yeast, insect or mammalian cell hosts may also be used, employing suitable vectors and control sequences.

IV.I. Assays to Detect T-Cell Responses

Once HLA binding peptides are identified, they can be tested for the ability to elicit a T-cell response. The preparation and evaluation of motif-bearing peptides are described in PCT publications WO 94/20127 and WO 94/03205. Briefly, peptides comprising epitopes from a particular antigen are synthesized and tested for their ability to bind to the appropriate HLA proteins. These assays may involve evaluating the binding of a peptide of the invention to purified HLA class I molecules in relation to the binding of a radioiodinated reference peptide. Alternatively, cells expressing empty class I molecules (i.e. lacking peptide therein) may be evaluated for peptide binding by immunofluorescent staining and flow microfluorimetry. Other assays that may be used to evaluate peptide binding include peptide-dependent class I assembly assays and/or the inhibition of CTL recognition by peptide competition. Those peptides that bind to the class I molecule, typically with an affinity of 500 nM or less, are further evaluated for their ability to serve as targets for CTLs derived from infected or immunized individuals, as well as for their capacity to induce primary in vitro or in vivo CTL responses that can give rise to CTL populations capable of reacting with selected target cells associated with a disease.

Analogous assays are used for evaluation of HLA class II binding peptides. HLA class II motif-bearing peptides that are shown to bind, typically at an affinity of 1000 nM or less, are further evaluated for the ability to stimulate HTL responses.

Conventional assays utilized to detect T cell responses include proliferation assays, lymphokine secretion assays, direct cytotoxicity assays, and limiting dilution assays. For example, antigen-presenting cells that have been incubated with a peptide can be assayed for the ability to induce CTL responses in responder cell populations. Antigen-presenting cells can be normal cells such as peripheral blood mononuclear cells or dendritic cells. Alternatively, mutant non-human mammalian cell lines that are deficient in their ability to load class I molecules with internally processed peptides and that have been transfected with the appropriate human class I gene, may be used to test for the capacity of the peptide to induce in vitro primary CTL responses.

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) may be used as the responder cell source of CTL precursors. The appropriate antigen-presenting cells are incubated with peptide, after which the peptide-loaded antigen-presenting cells are then incubated with the responder cell population under optimized culture conditions. Positive CTL activation can be determined by assaying the culture for the presence of CTLs that kill radio-labeled target cells, both specific peptide-pulsed targets as well as target cells expressing endogenously processed forms of the antigen from which the peptide sequence was derived.

Additionally, a method has been devised which allows direct quantification of antigen-specific T cells by staining with Fluorescein-labelled HLA tetrameric complexes (Altman, J. D. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:10330, 1993; Altman, J. D. et al., Science 274:94, 1996). Other relatively recent technical developments include staining for intracellular lymphokines, and interferon-γ release assays or ELISPOT assays. Tetramer staining, intracellular lymphokine staining and ELISPOT assays all appear to be at least 10-fold more sensitive than more conventional assays (Lalvani, A. et al., J. Exp. Med. 186:859, 1997; Dunbar, P. R. et al., Curr. Biol. 8:413, 1998; Murali-Krishna, K. et al., Immunity 8:177, 1998).

HTL activation may also be assessed using such techniques known to those in the art such as T cell proliferation and secretion of lymphokines, e.g. IL-2 (see, e.g. Alexander et al., Immunity 1:751-761, 1994).

Alternatively, immunization of HLA transgenic mice can be used to determine immunogenicity of peptide epitopes. Several transgenic mouse models including mice with human A2.1, A11 (which can additionally be used to analyze HLA-A3 epitopes), and B7 alleles have been characterized and others (e.g., transgenic mice for HLA-A1 and A24) are being developed. HLA-DR1 and HLA-DR3 mouse models have also been developed. Additional transgenic mouse models with other HLA alleles may be generated as necessary. The mice may be immunized with peptides emulsified in Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant and the resulting T cells tested for their capacity to recognize peptide-pulsed target cells and target cells transfected with appropriate genes. CTL responses may be analyzed using cytotoxicity assays described above. Similarly, HTL responses may be analyzed using such assays as T cell proliferation or secretion of lymphokines.

IV.J. Use of Peptide Epitopes as Diagnostic Agents and for Evaluating Immune Responses

In one embodiment of the invention, HLA class I and class II binding peptides as described herein are used as reagents to evaluate an immune response. The immune response to be evaluated is induced by using as an immunogen any agent that may result in the production of antigen-specific CTLs or HTLs that recognize and bind to the peptide epitope(s) to be employed as the reagent. The peptide reagent need not be used as the immunogen. Assay systems that are used for such an analysis include relatively recent technical developments such as tetramers, staining for intracellular lymphokines and interferon release assays, or ELISPOT assays.

For example, peptides of the invention are used in tetramer staining assays to assess peripheral blood mononuclear cells for the presence of antigen-specific CTLs following exposure to a tumor cell antigen or an immunogen. The HLA-tetrameric complex is used to directly visualize antigen-specific CTLs (see, e.g., Ogg et al., Science 279:2103-2106, 1998; and Altman et al., Science 174:94-96, 1996) and determine the frequency of the antigen-specific CTL population in a sample of peripheral blood mononuclear cells. A tetramer reagent using a peptide of the invention is generated as follows: A peptide that binds to an HLA molecule is refolded in the presence of the corresponding HLA heavy chain and β₂-microglobulin to generate a trimolecular complex. The complex is biotinylated at the carboxyl terminal end of the heavy chain at a site that was previously engineered into the protein. Tetramer formation is then induced by the addition of streptavidin. By means of fluorescently labeled streptavidin, the tetramer can be used to stain antigen-specific cells. The cells can then be identified, for example, by flow cytometry. Such an analysis may be used for diagnostic or prognostic purposes. Cells identified by the procedure can also be used for therapeutic purposes.

Peptides of the invention are also used as reagents to evaluate immune recall responses (see, e.g., Bertoni et al., J. Clin. Invest. 100:503-513, 1997 and Penna et al., J. Exp. Med. 174:1565-1570, 1991). For example, patient PBMC samples from individuals with cancer are analyzed for the presence of antigen-specific CTLs or HTLs using specific peptides. A blood sample containing mononuclear cells can be evaluated by cultivating the PBMCs and stimulating the cells with a peptide of the invention. After an appropriate cultivation period, the expanded cell population can be analyzed, for example, for CTL or for HTL activity.

The peptides are also used as reagents to evaluate the efficacy of a vaccine. PBMCs obtained from a patient vaccinated with an immunogen are analyzed using, for example, either of the methods described above. The patient is HLA typed, and peptide epitope reagents that recognize the allele-specific molecules present in that patient are selected for the analysis. The immunogenicity of the vaccine is indicated by the presence of epitope-specific CTLs and/or HTLs in the PBMC sample.

The peptides of the invention are also used to make antibodies, using techniques well known in the art (see, e.g. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN IMMUNOLOGY, Wiley/Greene, NY; and Antibodies A Laboratory Manual, Harlow and Lane, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989), which may be useful as reagents to diagnose or monitor cancer. Such antibodies include those that recognize a peptide in the context of an HLA molecule, i.e., antibodies that bind to a peptide-MHC complex.

IV.K. Vaccine Compositions

Vaccines and methods of preparing vaccines that contain an immunogenically effective amount of one or more peptides as described herein are further embodiments of the invention. Once appropriately immunogenic epitopes have been defined, they can be sorted and delivered by various means, herein referred to as “vaccine” compositions. Such vaccine compositions can include, for example, lipopeptides (e.g., Vitiello, A. et al., J. Clin. Invest. 95:341, 1995), peptide compositions encapsulated in poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) (“PLG”) microspheres (see, e.g., Eldridge, et al., Molec. Immunol. 28:287-294, 1991: Alonso et al., Vaccine 12:299-306, 1994; Jones et al., Vaccine 13:675-681, 1995), peptide compositions contained in immune stimulating complexes (ISCOMS) (see, e.g., Takahashi et al., Nature 344:873-875, 1990; Hu et al., Clin Exp Immunol. 113:235-243, 1998), multiple antigen peptide systems (MAPs) (see e.g., Tam, J. P., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85:5409-5413, 1988; Tam, J. P., J. Immunol. Methods 196:17-32, 1996), peptides formulated as multivalent peptides; peptides for use in ballistic delivery systems, typically crystallized peptides, viral delivery vectors (Perkus, M. E. et al., In: Concepts in vaccine development, Kaufmann, S. H. E., ed., p. 379, 1996; Chakrabarti, S. et al., Nature 320:535, 1986; Hu, S. L. et al., Nature 320:537, 1986; Kieny, M.-P. et al., AIDS Bio/Technology 4:790, 1986; Top, F. H. et al., J. Infect. Dis. 124:148, 1971; Chanda, P. K. et al., Virology 175:535, 1990), particles of viral or synthetic origin (e.g., Kofler, N. et al., J. Immunol. Methods. 192:25, 1996; Eldridge, J. H. et al., Sem. Hematol. 30:16, 1993; Falo, L. D., Jr. et al., Nature Med. 7:649, 1995), adjuvants (Warren, H. S., Vogel, F. R., and Chedid, L. A. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 4:369, 1986; Gupta, R. K. et al., Vaccine 11:293, 1993), liposomes (Reddy, R. et al., J. Immunol. 148:1585, 1992; Rock, K. L., Immunol. Today 17:131, 1996), or, naked or particle absorbed cDNA (Ulmer, J. B. et al., Science 259:1745, 1993; Robinson, H. L., Hunt, L. A., and Webster, R. G., Vaccine 11:957, 1993; Shiver, J. W. et al., In: Concepts in vaccine development, Kaufmann, S. H. E., ed., p. 423, 1996; Cease, K. B., and Berzofsky, J. A., Annu. Rev. Immunol. 12:923, 1994 and Eldridge, J. H. et al., Sem. Hematol. 30:16, 1993). Toxin-targeted delivery technologies, also known as receptor mediated targeting, such as those of Avant Immunotherapeutics, Inc. (Needham, Mass.) may also be used.

Vaccines of the invention include nucleic acid-mediated modalities. DNA or RNA encoding one or more of the peptides of the invention can also be administered to a patient. This approach is described, for instance, in Wolff et. al., Science 247:1465 (1990) as well as U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,580,859; 5,589,466; 5,804,566; 5,739,118; 5,736,524; 5,679,647; WO 98/04720; and in more detail below. Examples of DNA-based delivery technologies include “naked DNA”, facilitated (bupivicaine, polymers, peptide-mediated) delivery, cationic lipid complexes, and particle-mediated (“gene gun”) or pressure-mediated delivery (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,922,687).

For therapeutic or prophylactic immunization purposes, the peptides of the invention can also be expressed by viral or bacterial vectors. Examples of expression vectors include attenuated viral hosts, such as vaccinia or fowlpox. As an example of this approach, vaccinia virus is used as a vector to express nucleotide sequences that encode the peptides of the invention. Upon introduction into a host bearing a tumor, the recombinant vaccinia virus expresses the immunogenic peptide, and thereby elicits a host CTL and/or HTL response. Vaccinia vectors and methods useful in immunization protocols are described in, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 4,722,848. Another vector is BCG (Bacille Calmette Guerin). BCG vectors are described in Stover et al., Nature 351:456-460 (1991). A wide variety of other vectors useful for therapeutic administration or immunization of the peptides of the invention, e.g. adeno and adeno-associated virus vectors, retroviral vectors, Salmonella typhi vectors, detoxified anthrax toxin vectors, and the like, will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the description herein.

Furthermore, vaccines in accordance with the invention encompass compositions of one or more of the claimed peptides. A peptide can be present in a vaccine individually. Alternatively, the peptide can exist as a homopolymer comprising multiple copies of the same peptide, or as a heteropolymer of various peptides. Polymers have the advantage of increased immunological reaction and, where different peptide epitopes are used to make up the polymer, the additional ability to induce antibodies and/or CTLs that react with different antigenic determinants of the pathogenic organism or tumor-related peptide targeted for an immune response. The composition can be a naturally occurring region of an antigen or can be prepared, e.g., recombinantly or by chemical synthesis.

Carriers that can be used with vaccines of the invention are well known in the art, and include, e.g., thyroglobulin, albumins such as human serum albumin, tetanus toxoid, polyamino acids such as poly L-lysine, poly L-glutamic acid, influenza, hepatitis B virus core protein, and the like. The vaccines can contain a physiologically tolerable (i.e., acceptable) diluent such as water, or saline, preferably phosphate buffered saline. The vaccines also typically include an adjuvant. Adjuvants such as incomplete Freund's adjuvant, aluminum phosphate, aluminum hydroxide, or alum are examples of materials well known in the art. Additionally, as disclosed herein, CTL responses can be primed by conjugating peptides of the invention to lipids, such as tripalmitoyl-S-glycerylcysteinlyseryl-serine (P₃CSS).

Upon immunization with a peptide composition in accordance with the invention, via injection, aerosol, oral, transdermal, transmucosal, intrapleural, intrathecal, or other suitable routes, the immune system of the host responds to the vaccine by producing large amounts of CTLs and/or HTLs specific for the desired antigen. Consequently, the host becomes at least partially immune to later infection, or at least partially resistant to developing an ongoing chronic infection, or derives at least some therapeutic benefit when the antigen was tumor-associated.

In some embodiments, it may be desirable to combine the class I peptide components with components that induce or facilitate neutralizing antibody and or helper T cell responses to the target antigen of interest. A preferred embodiment of such a composition comprises class I and class II epitopes in accordance with the invention. An alternative embodiment of such a composition comprises a class I and/or class II epitope in accordance with the invention, along with a PADRE™ (Epimmune, San Diego, Calif.) molecule (described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,736,142).

A vaccine of the invention can also include antigen-presenting cells (APC), such as dendritic cells (DC), as a vehicle to present peptides of the invention. Vaccine compositions can be created in vitro, following dendritic cell mobilization and harvesting, whereby loading of dendritic cells occurs in vitro. For example, dendritic cells are transfected, e.g., with a minigene in accordance with the invention, or are pulsed with peptides. The dendritic cell can then be administered to a patient to elicit immune responses in vivo.

Vaccine compositions, either DNA- or peptide-based, can also be administered in vivo in combination with dendritic cell mobilization whereby loading of dendritic cells occurs in vivo.

Antigenic peptides are used to elicit a CTL and/or HTL response ex vivo, as well. The resulting CTL or HTL cells, can be used to treat tumors in patients that do not respond to other conventional forms of therapy, or will not respond to a therapeutic vaccine peptide or nucleic acid in accordance with the invention. Ex vivo CTL or HTL responses to a particular tumor-associated antigen are induced by incubating in tissue culture the patient's, or genetically compatible, CTL or HTL precursor cells together with a source of antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells, and the appropriate immunogenic peptide. After an appropriate incubation time (typically about 7-28 days), in which the precursor cells are activated and expanded into effector cells, the cells are infused back into the patient, where they will destroy (CTL) or facilitate destruction (HTL) of their specific target cell (an infected cell or a tumor cell). Transfected dendritic cells may also be used as antigen presenting cells.

The vaccine compositions of the invention can also be used in combination with other treatments used for cancer, including use in combination with immune adjuvants such as IL-2, IL-12, GM-CSF, and the like.

Preferably, the following principles are utilized when selecting an array of epitopes for inclusion in a polyepitopic composition for use in a vaccine, or for selecting discrete epitopes to be included in a vaccine and/or to be encoded by nucleic acids such as a minigene. It is preferred that each of the following principles are balanced in order to make the selection. The multiple epitopes to be incorporated in a given vaccine composition may be, but need not be, contiguous in sequence in the native antigen from which the epitopes are derived.

1.) Epitopes are selected which, upon administration, mimic immune responses that have been observed to be correlated with tumor clearance. For HLA Class I this includes 3-4 epitopes that come from at least one TAA. For HLA Class II a similar rationale is employed; again 3-4 epitopes are selected from at least one TAA (see e.g., Rosenberg et al., Science 278:1447-1450). Epitopes from one TAA may be used in combination with epitopes from one or more additional TAAs to produce a vaccine that targets tumors with varying expression patterns of frequently-expressed TAAs as described, e.g., in Example 15.

2.) Epitopes are selected that have the requisite binding affinity established to be correlated with immunogenicity: for HLA Class I an IC₅₀ of 500 nM or less, often 200 nM or less; and for Class II an IC₅₀ of 1000 nM or less.

3.) Sufficient supermotif bearing-peptides, or a sufficient array of allele-specific motif-bearing peptides, are selected to give broad population coverage. For example, it is preferable to have at least 80% population coverage. A Monte Carlo analysis, a statistical evaluation known in the art, can be employed to assess the breadth, or redundancy of, population coverage.

4.) When selecting epitopes from cancer-related antigens it is often useful to select analogs because the patient may have developed tolerance to the native epitope. When selecting epitopes for infectious disease-related antigens it is preferable to select either native or analoged epitopes.

5.) Of particular relevance are epitopes referred to as “nested epitopes.” Nested epitopes occur where at least two epitopes overlap in a given peptide sequence. A nested peptide sequence can comprise both HLA class I and HLA class II epitopes. When providing nested epitopes, a general objective is to provide the greatest number of epitopes per sequence. Thus, an aspect is to avoid providing a peptide that is any longer than the amino terminus of the amino terminal epitope and the carboxyl terminus of the carboxyl terminal epitope in the peptide. When providing a multi-epitopic sequence, such as a sequence comprising nested epitopes, it is generally important to screen the sequence in order to insure that it does not have pathological or other deleterious biological properties.

6.) If a polyepitopic protein is created, or when creating a minigene, an objective is to generate the smallest peptide that encompasses the epitopes of interest. This principle is similar, if not the same as that employed when selecting a peptide comprising nested epitopes. However, with an artificial polyepitopic peptide, the size minimization objective is balanced against the need to integrate any spacer sequences between epitopes in the polyepitopic protein. Spacer amino acid residues can, for example, be introduced to avoid junctional epitopes (an epitope recognized by the immune system, not present in the target antigen, and only created by the man-made juxtaposition of epitopes), or to facilitate cleavage between epitopes and thereby enhance epitope presentation. Junctional epitopes are generally to be avoided because the recipient may generate an immune response to that non-native epitope. Of particular concern is a junctional epitope that is a “dominant epitope.” A dominant epitope may lead to such a zealous response that immune responses to other epitopes are diminished or suppressed.

IV.K.1. Minigene Vaccines

A number of different approaches are available which allow simultaneous delivery of multiple epitopes. Nucleic acids encoding the peptides of the invention are a particularly useful embodiment of the invention. Epitopes for inclusion in a minigene are preferably selected according to the guidelines set forth in the previous section. A preferred means of administering nucleic acids encoding the peptides of the invention uses minigene constructs encoding a peptide comprising one or multiple epitopes of the invention.

The use of multi-epitope minigenes is described below and in, e.g., co-pending application U.S. Ser. No. 09/311,784; Ishioka et al., J. Immunol. 162:3915-3925, 1999; An, L. and Whitton, J. L., J. Virol. 71:2292, 1997; Thomson, S. A. et al., J. Immunol. 157:822, 1996; Whitton, J. L. et al., J. Virol. 67:348, 1993; Hanke, R. et al., Vaccine 16:426, 1998. For example, a multi-epitope DNA plasmid encoding supermotif-and/or motif-bearing PSA, PSM, PAP, and hK2 epitopes derived from multiple regions of one or more of the prostate cancer-associated antigens, the PADRE™ universal helper T cell epitope (or multiple HTL epitopes from PSA, PSM, PAP, and hK2), and an endoplasmic reticulum-translocating signal sequence can be engineered. A vaccine may also comprise epitopes that are derived from other TAAs.

The immunogenicity of a multi-epitopic minigene can be tested in transgenic mice to evaluate the magnitude of CTL induction responses against the epitopes tested. Further, the immunogenicity of DNA-encoded epitopes in vivo can be correlated with the in vitro responses of specific CTL lines against target cells transfected with the DNA plasmid. Thus, these experiments can show that the minigene serves to both: 1.) generate a CTL response and 2.) that the induced CTLs recognized cells expressing the encoded epitopes.

For example, to create a DNA sequence encoding the selected epitopes (minigene) for expression in human cells, the amino acid sequences of the epitopes may be reverse translated. A human codon usage table can be used to guide the codon choice for each amino acid. These epitope-encoding DNA sequences may be directly adjoined, so that when translated, a continuous polypeptide sequence is created. To optimize expression and/or immunogenicity, additional elements can be incorporated into the minigene design. Examples of amino acid sequences that can be reverse translated and included in the minigene sequence include: HLA class I epitopes, HLA class II epitopes, a ubiquitination signal sequence, and/or an endoplasmic reticulum targeting signal. In addition, HLA presentation of CTL and HTL epitopes may be improved by including synthetic (e.g. poly-alanine) or naturally-occurring flanking sequences adjacent to the CTL or HTL epitopes; these larger peptides comprising the epitope(s) are within the scope of the invention.

The minigene sequence may be converted to DNA by assembling oligonucleotides that encode the plus and minus strands of the minigene. Overlapping oligonucleotides (30-100 bases long) may be synthesized, phosphorylated, purified and annealed under appropriate conditions using well known techniques. The ends of the oligonucleotides can be joined, for example, using T4 DNA ligase. This synthetic minigene, encoding the epitope polypeptide, can then be cloned into a desired expression vector.

Standard regulatory sequences well known to those of skill in the art are preferably included in the vector to ensure expression in the target cells. Several vector elements are desirable: a promoter with a down-stream cloning site for minigene insertion; a polyadenylation signal for efficient transcription termination; an E. coli origin of replication; and an E. coli selectable marker (e.g. ampicillin or kanamycin resistance). Numerous promoters can be used for this purpose, e.g., the human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) promoter. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,580,859 and 5,589,466 for other suitable promoter sequences.

Additional vector modifications may be desired to optimize minigene expression and immunogenicity. In some cases, introns are required for efficient gene expression, and one or more synthetic or naturally-occurring introns could be incorporated into the transcribed region of the minigene. The inclusion of mRNA stabilization sequences and sequences for replication in mammalian cells may also be considered for increasing minigene expression.

Once an expression vector is selected, the minigene is cloned into the polylinker region downstream of the promoter. This plasmid is transformed into an appropriate E. coli strain, and DNA is prepared using standard techniques. The orientation and DNA sequence of the minigene, as well as all other elements included in the vector, are confirmed using restriction mapping and DNA sequence analysis. Bacterial cells harboring the correct plasmid can be stored as a master cell bank and a working cell bank.

In addition, immunostimulatory sequences (ISSs or CpGs) appear to play a role in the immunogenicity of DNA vaccines. These sequences may be included in the vector, outside the minigene coding sequence, if desired to enhance immunogenicity.

In some embodiments, a bi-cistronic expression vector which allows production of both the minigene-encoded epitopes and a second protein (included to enhance or decrease immunogenicity) can be used. Examples of proteins or polypeptides that could beneficially enhance the immune response if co-expressed include cytokines (e.g., IL-2, IL-12, GM-CSF), cytokine-inducing molecules (e.g., LeIF), costimulatory molecules, or for HTL responses, pan-DR binding proteins (PADRE™, Epimmune, San Diego, Calif.). Helper (HTL) epitopes can be joined to intracellular targeting signals and expressed separately from expressed CTL epitopes; this allows direction of the HTL epitopes to a cell compartment different than that of the CTL epitopes. If required, this could facilitate more efficient entry of HTL epitopes into the HLA class II pathway, thereby improving HTL induction. In contrast to HTL or CTL induction, specifically decreasing the immune response by co-expression of immunosuppressive molecules (e.g. TGF-β) may be beneficial in certain diseases.

Therapeutic quantities of plasmid DNA can be produced for example, by fermentation in E. coli, followed by purification. Aliquots from the working cell bank are used to inoculate growth medium, and grown to saturation in shaker flasks or a bioreactor according to well known techniques. Plasmid DNA can be purified using standard bioseparation technologies such as solid phase anion-exchange resins supplied by QIAGEN, Inc. (Valencia, Calif.). If required, supercoiled DNA can be isolated from the open circular and linear forms using gel electrophoresis or other methods.

Purified plasmid DNA can be prepared for injection using a variety of formulations. The simplest of these is reconstitution of lyophilized DNA in sterile phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). This approach, known as “naked DNA,” is currently being used for intramuscular (IM) administration in clinical trials. To maximize the immunotherapeutic effects of minigene DNA vaccines, an alternative method for formulating purified plasmid DNA may be desirable. A variety of methods have been described, and new techniques may become available. Cationic lipids, glycolipids, and fusogenic liposomes can also be used in the formulation (see, e.g., as described by WO 93/24640; Mannino & Gould-Fogerite, BioTechniques 6(7): 682 (1988); U.S. Pat. No. 5,279,833; WO 91/06309; and Felgner, et al., Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci. USA 84:7413 (1987). In addition, peptides and compounds referred to collectively as protective, interactive, non-condensing compounds (PINC) could also be complexed to purified plasmid DNA to influence variables such as stability, intramuscular dispersion, or trafficking to specific organs or cell types.

Target cell sensitization can be used as a functional assay for expression and HLA class I presentation of minigene-encoded CTL epitopes. For example, the plasmid DNA is introduced into a mammalian cell line that is suitable as a target for standard CTL chromium release assays. The transfection method used will be dependent on the final formulation. Electroporation can be used for “naked” DNA, whereas cationic lipids allow direct in vitro transfection. A plasmid expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) can be co-transfected to allow enrichment of transfected cells using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS). These cells are then chromium-51 (51 Cr) labeled and used as target cells for epitope-specific CTL lines; cytolysis, detected by ⁵¹Cr release, indicates both production of, and HLA presentation of, minigene-encoded CTL epitopes. Expression of HTL epitopes may be evaluated in an analogous manner using assays to assess HTL activity.

In vivo immunogenicity is a second approach for functional testing of minigene DNA formulations. Transgenic mice expressing appropriate human HLA proteins are immunized with the DNA product. The dose and route of administration are formulation dependent (e.g., IM for DNA in PBS, intraperitoneal (IP) for lipid-complexed DNA). Twenty-one days after immunization, splenocytes are harvested and restimulated for one week in the presence of peptides encoding each epitope being tested. Thereafter, for CTL effector cells, assays are conducted for cytolysis of peptide-loaded, ⁵¹Cr-labeled target cells using standard techniques. Lysis of target cells that were sensitized by HLA loaded with peptide epitopes, corresponding to minigene-encoded epitopes, demonstrates DNA vaccine function for in vivo induction of CTLs. Immunogenicity of HTL epitopes is evaluated in transgenic mice in an analogous manner.

Alternatively, the nucleic acids can be administered using ballistic delivery as described, for instance, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,204,253. Using this technique, particles comprised solely of DNA are administered. In a further alternative embodiment, DNA can be adhered to particles, such as gold particles.

Minigenes can also be delivered using other bacterial or viral delivery systems well known in the art, e.g., an expression construct encoding epitopes of the invention can be incorporated into a viral vector such as vaccinia.

IV.K.2. Combinations of CTL Peptides with Helper Peptides

Vaccine compositions comprising the peptides of the present invention can be modified to provide desired attributes, such as improved serum half-life, or to enhance immunogenicity.

For instance, the ability of a peptide to induce CTL activity can be enhanced by linking the peptide to a sequence which contains at least one epitope that is capable of inducing a T helper cell response. The use of T helper epitopes in conjunction with CTL epitopes to enhance immunogenicity is illustrated, for example, in the co-pending applications U.S. Ser. No. 08/820,360, U.S. Ser. No. 08/197,484, and U.S. Ser. No. 08/464,234.

Although a CTL peptide can be directly linked to a T helper peptide, often CTL epitope/HTL epitope conjugates are linked by a spacer molecule. The spacer is typically comprised of relatively small, neutral molecules, such as amino acids or amino acid mimetics, which are substantially uncharged under physiological conditions. The spacers are typically selected from, e.g., Ala, Gly, or other neutral spacers of nonpolar amino acids or neutral polar amino acids. It will be understood that the optionally present spacer need not be comprised of the same residues and thus may be a hetero- or homo-oligomer. When present, the spacer will usually be at least one or two residues, more usually three to six residues and sometimes 10 or more residues. The CTL peptide epitope can be linked to the T helper peptide epitope either directly or via a spacer either at the amino or carboxy terminus of the CTL peptide. The amino terminus of either the immunogenic peptide or the T helper peptide may be acylated.

In certain embodiments, the T helper peptide is one that is recognized by T helper cells present in the majority of the population. This can be accomplished by selecting amino acid sequences that bind to many, most, or all of the HLA class II molecules. These are known as “loosely HLA-restricted” or “promiscuous” T helper sequences. Examples of peptides that are promiscuous include sequences from antigens such as tetanus toxoid at positions 830-843 (QYIKANSKFIGITE), Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite (CS) protein at positions 378-398 (DIEKKIAKMEKASSVFNVVNS), and Streptococcus 18 kD protein at positions 116 (GAVDSILGGVATYGAA). Other examples include peptides bearing a DR 1-4-7 supermotif, or either of the DR3 motifs.

Alternatively, it is possible to prepare synthetic peptides capable of stimulating T helper lymphocytes, in a loosely HLA-restricted fashion, using amino acid sequences not found in nature (see, e.g., PCT publication WO 95/07707). These synthetic compounds called Pan-DR-binding epitopes (e.g., PADRE™, Epimmune, Inc., San Diego, Calif.) are designed to most preferrably bind most HLA-DR (human HLA class II) molecules. For instance, a pan-DR-binding epitope peptide having the formula: aKXVAAWTLKAAa, where “X” is either cyclohexylalanine, phenylalanine, or tyrosine, and “a” is either D-alanine or L-alanine, has been found to bind to most HLA-DR alleles, and to stimulate the response of T helper lymphocytes from most individuals, regardless of their HLA type. An alternative of a pan-DR binding epitope comprises all “L” natural amino acids and can be provided in the form of nucleic acids that encode the epitope.

HTL peptide epitopes can also be modified to alter their biological properties. For example, they can be modified to include D-amino acids to increase their resistance to proteases and thus extend their serum half life, or they can be conjugated to other molecules such as lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and the like to increase their biological activity. For example, the T helper peptide can be conjugated to one or more palmitic acid chains at either the amino or carboxyl termini.

IV.K.3. Combinations of CTL Peptides with T Cell Priming Agents

In some embodiments it may be desirable to include in the pharmaceutical compositions of the invention at least one component which primes cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Lipids have been identified as agents capable of priming CTL in vivo against viral antigens. For example, palmitic acid residues can be attached to the ε-and α-amino groups of a lysine residue and then linked, e.g., via one or more linking residues such as Gly, Gly-Gly-, Ser, Ser-Ser, or the like, to an immunogenic peptide. The lipidated peptide can then be administered either directly in a micelle or particle, incorporated into a liposome, or emulsified in an adjuvant, e.g., incomplete Freund's adjuvant. A preferred immunogenic composition comprises palmitic acid attached to ε- and α-amino groups of Lys, which is attached via linkage, e.g., Ser-Ser, to the amino terminus of the immunogenic peptide.

As another example of lipid priming of CTL responses, E. coli lipoproteins, such as tripalmitoyl-S-glycerylcysteinlyseryl-serine (P₃CSS) can be used to prime virus specific CTL when covalently attached to an appropriate peptide (see, e.g., Deres, et al., Nature 342:561, 1989). Peptides of the invention can be coupled to P₃CSS, for example, and the lipopeptide administered to an individual to specifically prime a CTL response to the target antigen. Moreover, because the induction of neutralizing antibodies can also be primed with P₃CSS-conjugated epitopes, two such compositions can be combined to more effectively elicit both humoral and cell-mediated responses.

CTL and/or HTL peptides can also be modified by the addition of amino acids to the termini of a peptide to provide for ease of linking peptides one to another, for coupling to a carrier support or larger peptide, for modifying the physical or chemical properties of the peptide or oligopeptide, or the like. Amino acids such as tyrosine, cysteine, lysine, glutamic or aspartic acid, or the like, can be introduced at the C- or N-terminus of the peptide or oligopeptide, particularly class I peptides. However, it is to be noted that modification at the carboxyl terminus of a CTL epitope may, in some cases, alter binding characteristics of the peptide. In addition, the peptide or oligopeptide sequences can differ from the natural sequence by being modified by terminal-NH₂ acylation, e.g., by alkanoyl (C₁-C₂₀) or thioglycolyl acetylation, terminal-carboxyl amidation, e.g., ammonia, methylamine, etc. In some instances these modifications may provide sites for linking to a support or other molecule.

IV.K.4. Vaccine Compositions Comprising DC Pulsed with CTL and/or HTL Peptides

An embodiment of a vaccine composition in accordance with the invention comprises ex vivo administration of a cocktail of epitope-bearing peptides to PBMC, or isolated DC therefrom, from the patient's blood. A pharmaceutical to facilitate harvesting of DC can be used, such as Progenipoietin™ (Monsanto, St. Louis, Mo.) or GM-CSF/IL-4. After pulsing the DC with peptides and prior to reinfusion into patients, the DC are washed to remove unbound peptides. In this embodiment, a vaccine comprises peptide-pulsed DCs which present the pulsed peptide epitopes complexed with HLA molecules on their surfaces.

The DC can be pulsed ex vivo with a cocktail of peptides, some of which stimulate CTL response to one or more antigens of interest, e.g., prostate-associated antigens such as PSA, PSM, PAP, kallikrein, and the like. Optionally, a helper T cell peptide such as a PADRE™ family molecule, can be included to facilitate the CTL response.

IV.L. Administration of Vaccines for Therapeutic or Prophylactic Purposes

The peptides of the present invention and pharmaceutical and vaccine compositions of the invention are typically used therapeutically to treat cancer, particularly prostate cancer. Vaccine compositions containing the peptides of the invention are typically administered to a prostate cancer patient who has a malignancy associated with expression of one or more prostate-associated antigens. Alternatively, vaccine compositions can be administered to an individual susceptible to, or otherwise at risk for developing prostate cancer.

In therapeutic applications, peptide and/or nucleic acid compositions are administered to a patient in an amount sufficient to elicit an effective CTL and/or HTL response to the tumor antigen and to cure or at least partially arrest or slow symptoms and/or complications. An amount adequate to accomplish this is defined as “therapeutically effective dose.” Amounts effective for this use will depend on, e.g., the particular composition administered, the manner of administration, the stage and severity of the disease being treated, the weight and general state of health of the patient, and the judgment of the prescribing physician.

As noted above, peptides comprising CTL and/or HTL epitopes of the invention induce immune responses when presented by HLA molecules and contacted with a CTL or HTL specific for an epitope comprised by the peptide. The peptides (or DNA encoding them) can be administered individually or as fusions of one or more peptide sequences. The manner in which the peptide is contacted with the CTL or HTL is not critical to the invention. For instance, the peptide can be contacted with the CTL or HTL either in vivo or in vitro. If the contacting occurs in vivo, the peptide itself can be administered to the patient, or other vehicles, e.g., DNA vectors encoding one or more peptides, viral vectors encoding the peptide(s), liposomes and the like, can be used, as described herein.

When the peptide is contacted in vitro, the vaccinating agent can comprise a population of cells, e.g., peptide-pulsed dendritic cells, or TAA-specific CTLs, which have been induced by pulsing antigen-presenting cells in vitro with the peptide or by transfecting antigen-presenting cells with a minigene of the invention. Such a cell population is subsequently administered to a patient in a therapeutically effective dose.

For therapeutic use, administration should generally begin at the first diagnosis of cancer. This is followed by boosting doses until at least symptoms are substantially abated and for a period thereafter. The embodiment of the vaccine composition (i.e., including, but not limited to embodiments such as peptide cocktails, polyepitopic polypeptides, minigenes, or TAA-specific CTLs or pulsed dendritic cells) delivered to the patient may vary according to the stage of the disease or the patient's health status. For example, a vaccine comprising TAA-specific CTLs may be more efficacious in killing tumor cells in patients with advanced disease than alternative embodiments.

The vaccine compositions of the invention may also be used therapeutically in combination with treatments such as surgery. An example is a situation in which a patient has undergone surgery to remove a primary tumor and the vaccine is then used to slow or prevent recurrence and/or metastasis.

Where susceptible individuals, e.g., individuals who may be diagnosed as being genetically pre-disposed to developing a prostate tumor, are identified prior to diagnosis of cancer, the composition can be targeted to them, thus minimizing the need for administration to a larger population.

The dosage for an initial therapeutic immunization generally occurs in a unit dosage range where the lower value is about 1, 5, 50, 500, or 1,000 μg and the higher value is about 10,000; 20,000; 30,000; or 50,000 μg. Dosage values for a human typically range from about 500 μg to about 50,000 μg per 70 kilogram patient. Initial doses followed by boosting doses at established intervals, e.g., from four weeks to six months, may be required, possibly for a prolonged period of time to effectively treat a patient. Boosting dosages of between about 1.0 μg to about 50,000 μg of peptide pursuant to a boosting regimen over weeks to months may be administered depending upon the patient's response and condition as determined by measuring the specific activity of CTL and HTL obtained from the patient's blood.

Administration should continue until at least clinical symptoms or laboratory tests indicate that the tumor has been eliminated or that the tumor cell burden has been substantially reduced and for a period thereafter. The dosages, routes of administration, and dose schedules are adjusted in accordance with methodologies known in the art.

In certain embodiments, peptides and compositions of the present invention are employed in serious disease states, that is, life-threatening or potentially life threatening situations. In such cases, as a result of the minimal amounts of extraneous substances and the relative nontoxic nature of the peptides in preferred compositions of the invention, it is possible and may be felt desirable by the treating physician to administer substantial excesses of these peptide compositions relative to these stated dosage amounts.

The vaccine compositions of the invention can also be used as prophylactic agents. For example, the compositions can be administered to individuals at risk of developing prostate cancer. Generally the dosage for an initial prophylactic immunization generally occurs in a unit dosage range where the lower value is about 1, 5, 50, 500, or 1000 μg and the higher value is about 10,000; 20,000; 30,000; or 50,000 μg. Dosage values for a human typically range from about 500 μg to about 50,000 μg per 70 kilogram patient. This is followed by boosting dosages of between about 1.0 μg to about 50,000 μg of peptide administered at defined intervals from about four weeks to six months after the initial administration of vaccine. The immunogenicity of the vaccine may be assessed by measuring the specific activity of CTL and HTL obtained from a sample of the patient's blood.

The pharmaceutical compositions for therapeutic treatment are intended for parenteral, topical, oral, intrathecal, or local administration. Preferably, the pharmaceutical compositions are administered parentally, e.g., intravenously, subcutaneously, intradermally, or intramuscularly. Thus, the invention provides compositions for parenteral administration which comprise a solution of the immunogenic peptides dissolved or suspended in an acceptable carrier, preferably an aqueous carrier. A variety of aqueous carriers may be used, e.g., water, buffered water, 0.8% saline, 0.3% glycine, hyaluronic acid and the like. These compositions may be sterilized by conventional, well known sterilization techniques, or may be sterile filtered. The resulting aqueous solutions may be packaged for use as is, or lyophilized, the lyophilized preparation being combined with a sterile solution prior to administration. The compositions may contain pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary substances as required to approximate physiological conditions, such as pH-adjusting and buffering agents, tonicity adjusting agents, wetting agents, preservatives, and the like, for example, sodium acetate, sodium lactate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium chloride, sorbitan monolaurate, triethanolamine oleate, etc.

The concentration of peptides of the invention in the pharmaceutical formulations can vary widely, i.e., from less than about 0.1%, usually at or at least about 2% to as much as 20% to 50% or more by weight, and will be selected primarily by fluid volumes, viscosities, etc., in accordance with the particular mode of administration selected.

A human unit dose form of the peptide composition is typically included in a pharmaceutical composition that comprises a human unit dose of an acceptable carrier, preferably an aqueous carrier, and is administered in a volume of fluid that is known by those of skill in the art to be used for administration of such compositions to humans (see, e.g., Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, 17^(th) Edition, A. Gennaro, Editor, Mack Publishing Co., Easton, Pa., 1985).

The peptides of the invention may also be administered via liposomes, which serve to target the peptides to a particular tissue, such as lymphoid tissue, or to target selectively to infected cells, as well as to increase the half-life of the peptide composition. Liposomes include emulsions, foams, micelles, insoluble monolayers, liquid crystals, phospholipid dispersions, lamellar layers and the like. In these preparations, the peptide to be delivered is incorporated as part of a liposome, alone or in conjunction with a molecule which binds to a receptor prevalent among lymphoid cells, such as monoclonal antibodies which bind to the CD45 antigen, or with other therapeutic or immunogenic compositions. Thus, liposomes either filled or decorated with a desired peptide of the invention can be directed to the site of lymphoid cells, where the liposomes then deliver the peptide compositions. Liposomes for use in accordance with the invention are formed from standard vesicle-forming lipids, which generally include neutral and negatively charged phospholipids and a sterol, such as cholesterol. The selection of lipids is generally guided by consideration of, e.g., liposome size, acid lability and stability of the liposomes in the blood stream. A variety of methods are available for preparing liposomes, as described in, e.g., Szoka, et al., Ann. Rev. Biophys. Bioeng. 9:467 (1980), and U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,235,871, 4,501,728, 4,837,028, and 5,019,369.

For targeting cells of the immune system, a ligand to be incorporated into the liposome can include, e.g., antibodies or fragments thereof specific for cell surface determinants of the desired immune system cells. A liposome suspension containing a peptide may be administered intravenously, locally, topically, etc. in a dose which varies according to, inter alia, the manner of administration, the peptide being delivered, and the stage of the disease being treated.

For solid compositions, conventional nontoxic solid carriers may be used which include, for example, pharmaceutical grades of mannitol, lactose, starch, magnesium stearate, sodium saccharin, talcum, cellulose, glucose, sucrose, magnesium carbonate, and the like. For oral administration, a pharmaceutically acceptable nontoxic composition is formed by incorporating any of the normally employed excipients, such as those carriers previously listed, and generally 10-95% of active ingredient, that is, one or more peptides of the invention, and more preferably at a concentration of 25%-75%.

For aerosol administration, the immunogenic peptides are preferably supplied in finely divided form along with a surfactant and propellant. Typical percentages of peptides are 0.01%-20% by weight, preferably 1%-10%. The surfactant must, of course, be nontoxic, and preferably soluble in the propellant. Representative of such agents are the esters or partial esters of fatty acids containing from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, such as caproic, octanoic, lauric, palmitic, stearic, linoleic, linolenic, olesteric and oleic acids with an aliphatic polyhydric alcohol or its cyclic anhydride. Mixed esters, such as mixed or natural glycerides may be employed. The surfactant may constitute 0.1%-20% by weight of the composition, preferably 0.25-5%. The balance of the composition is ordinarily propellant. A carrier can also be included, as desired, as with, e.g., lecithin for intranasal delivery.

IV.M. Kits

The peptide and nucleic acid compositions of this invention can be provided in kit form together with instructions for vaccine administration. Typically the kit would include desired peptide compositions in a container, preferably in unit dosage form and instructions for administration. An alternative kit would include a minigene construct with desired nucleic acids of the invention in a container, preferably in unit dosage form together with instructions for administration. Lymphokines such as IL-2 or IL-12 may also be included in the kit. Other kit components that may also be desirable include, for example, a sterile syringe, booster dosages, and other desired excipients.

Epitopes in accordance with the present invention were successfully used to induce an immune response. Immune responses with these epitopes have been induced by administering the epitopes in various forms. The epitopes have been administered as peptides, as nucleic acids, and as viral vectors comprising nucleic acids that encode the epitope(s) of the invention. Upon administration of peptide-based epitope forms, immune responses have been induced by direct loading of an epitope onto an empty HLA molecule that is expressed on a cell, and via internalization of the epitope and processing via the HLA class I pathway; in either event, the HLA molecule expressing the epitope was then able to interact with and induce a CTL response. Peptides can be delivered directly or using such agents as liposomes. They can additionally be delivered using ballistic delivery, in which the peptides are typically in a crystalline form. When DNA is used to induce an immune response, it is administered either as naked DNA, generally in a dose range of approximately 1-5 mg, or via the ballistic “gene gun” delivery, typically in a dose range of approximately 10-100 μg. The DNA can be delivered in a variety of conformations, e.g., linear, circular etc. Various viral vectors have also successfully been used that comprise nucleic acids which encode epitopes in accordance with the invention.

Accordingly compositions in accordance with the invention exist in several forms. Embodiments of each of these composition forms in accordance with the invention have been successfully used to induce an immune response.

One composition in accordance with the invention comprises a plurality of peptides. This plurality or cocktail of peptides is generally admixed with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The peptide cocktail can comprise multiple copies of the same peptide or can comprise a mixture of peptides. The peptides can be analogs of naturally occurring epitopes. The peptides can comprise artificial amino acids and/or chemical modifications such as addition of a surface active molecule, e.g., lipidation; acetylation, glycosylation, biotinylation, phosphorylation etc. The peptides can be CTL or HTL epitopes. In a preferred embodiment the peptide cocktail comprises a plurality of different CTL epitopes and at least one HTL epitope. The HTL epitope can be naturally or non-naturally (e.g., PADRE®, Epimmune Inc., San Diego, Calif.). The number of distinct epitopes in an embodiment of the invention is generally a whole unit integer from one through one hundred fifty (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or, 100).

An additional embodiment of a composition in accordance with the invention comprises a polypeptide multi-epitope construct, i.e., a polyepitopic peptide. Polyepitopic peptides in accordance with the invention are prepared by use of technologies well-known in the art. By use of these known technologies, epitopes in accordance with the invention are connected one to another. The polyepitopic peptides can be linear or non-linear, e.g., multivalent. These polyepitopic constructs can comprise artificial amino acids, spacing or spacer amino acids, flanking amino acids, or chemical modifications between adjacent epitope units. The polyepitopic construct can be a heteropolymer or a homopolymer. The polyepitopic constructs generally comprise epitopes in a quantity of any whole unit integer between 2-150 (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or, 100). The polyepitopic construct can comprise CTL and/or HTL epitopes. One or more of the epitopes in the construct can be modified, e.g., by addition of a surface active material, e.g. a lipid, or chemically modified, e.g., acetylation, etc. Moreover, bonds in the multiepitopic construct can be other than peptide bonds, e.g., covalent bonds, ester or ether bonds, disulfide bonds, hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds etc.

Alternatively, a composition in accordance with the invention comprises construct which comprises a series, sequence, stretch, etc., of amino acids that have homology to (i.e., corresponds to or is contiguous with) to a native sequence. This stretch of amino acids comprises at least one subsequence of amino acids that, if cleaved or isolated from the longer series of amino acids, functions as an HLA class I or HLA class II epitope in accordance with the invention. In this embodiment, the peptide sequence is modified, so as to become a construct as defined herein, by use of any number of techniques known or to be provided in the art. The polyepitopic constructs can contain homology to a native sequence in any whole unit integer increment from 70-100%, e.g., 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or, 100 percent.

A further embodiment of a composition in accordance with the invention is an antigen presenting cell that comprises one or more epitopes in accordance with the invention. The antigen presenting cell can be a “professional” antigen presenting cell, such as a dendritic cell. The antigen presenting cell can comprise the epitope of the invention by any means known or to be determined in the art. Such means include pulsing of dendritic cells with one or more individual epitopes or with one or more peptides that comprise multiple epitopes, by nucleic acid administration such as ballistic nucleic acid delivery or by other techniques in the art for administration of nucleic acids, including vector-based, e.g. viral vector, delivery of nucleic acids.

Further embodiments of compositions in accordance with the invention comprise nucleic acids that encode one or more peptides of the invention, or nucleic acids which encode a polyepitopic peptide in accordance with the invention. As appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art, various nucleic acids compositions will encode the same peptide due to the redundancy of the genetic code. Each of these nucleic acid compositions falls within the scope of the present invention. This embodiment of the invention comprises DNA or RNA, and in certain embodiments a combination of DNA and RNA. It is to be appreciated that any composition comprising nucleic acids that will encode a peptide in accordance with the invention or any other peptide based composition in accordance with the invention, falls within the scope of this invention.

It is to be appreciated that peptide-based forms of the invention (as well as the nucleic acids that encode them) can comprise analogs of epitopes of the invention generated using priniciples already known, or to be known, in the art. Principles related to analoging are now known in the art, and are disclosed herein; moreover, analoging principles (heteroclitic analoging) are disclosed in co-pending application serial number U.S. Ser. No. 09/226,775 filed 6 Jan. 1999. Generally the compositions of the invention are isolated or purified.

The invention will be described in greater detail by way of specific examples. The following examples are offered for illustrative purposes, and are not intended to limit the invention in any manner. Those of skill in the art will readily recognize a variety of non-critical parameters that can be changed or modified to yield alternative embodiments in accordance with the invention.

V. EXAMPLES

The following examples illustrate identification, selection, and use of immunogenic Class I and Class II peptide epitopes for inclusion in vaccine compositions.

Example 1 HLA Class I and Class II Binding Assays

The following example of peptide binding to HLA molecules demonstrates quantification of binding affinities of HLA class I and class II peptides. Binding assays can be performed with peptides that are either motif-bearing or not motif-bearing.

Cell lysates were prepared and HLA molecules purified in accordance with disclosed protocols (Sidney et al., Current Protocols in Immunology 18.3.1 (1998); Sidney, et al., J. Immunol. 154:247 (1995); Sette, et al., Mol. Immunol. 31:813 (1994)). cells/ml in 50 mM Tris. The cell lines used as sources of HLA molecules and the antibodies used for the extraction of the HLA molecules from the cell lysates are also described in these publications.

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed homozygous cell lines, fibroblasts, CIR, or 721.221-transfectants were used as sources of HLA class I molecules. These cells were maintained in vitro by culture in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 2 mM L-glutamine (GIBCO, Grand Island, N.Y.), 50 μM 2-ME, 100 μg/ml of streptomycin, 100 U/ml of penicillin (Irvine Scientific) and 10% heat-inactivated FCS (Irvine Scientific, Santa Ana, Calif.). Cells were grown in 225-cm² tissue culture flasks or, for large-scale cultures, in roller bottle apparatuses.

Cell lysates were prepared and HLA molecules purified in accordance with disclosed protocols (Sidney et al., Current Protocols in Immunology 18.3.1 (1998); Sidney, et al., J. Immunol. 154:247 (1995); Sette, et al., Mol. Immunol. 31:813 (1994)). Briefly, cells were lysed at a concentration of 10⁸ cells/ml in 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.5, containing 1% Nonidet P-40 (Fluka Biochemika, Buchs, Switzerland), 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, and 2 mM PMSF. Lysates were cleared of debris and nuclei by centrifugation at 15,000×g for 30 min.

HLA molecules were purified from lysates by affinity chromatography. Lysates prepared as above were passed twice through two pre-columns of inactivated Sepharose CL-4-B and protein A-Sepharose. Next, the lysate was passed over a column of Sepharose CL-4B beads coupled to an appropriate antibody. The anti-HLA column was then washed with 10-column volumes of 10 mM Tris-HCL, pH 8.0, in 1% NP-40, PBS, 2-column volumes of PBS, and 2-column volumes of PBS containing 0.4% n-octylglucoside. Finally, MHC molecules were eluted with 50 mM diethylamine in 0.15M NaCl containing 0.4% n-octylglucoside, pH 11.5. A 1/25 volume of 2.0M Tris, pH 6.8, was added to the eluate to reduce the pH to ˜8.0. Eluates were then concentrated by centrifugation in Centriprep 30 concentrators at 2000 rpm (Amicon, Beverly, Mass.). Protein content was evaluated by a BCA protein assay (Pierce Chemical Co., Rockford, Ill.) and confirmed by SDS-PAGE.

A detailed description of the protocol utilized to measure the binding of peptides to Class I and Class II MHC has been published (Sette et al., Mol. Immunol. 31:813, 1994; Sidney et al., in Current Protocols in Immunology, Margulies, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, Section 18.3, 1998). Briefly, purified MHC molecules (5 to 500 nM) were incubated with various unlabeled peptide inhibitors and 1-10 nM ¹²⁵I-radiolabeled probe peptides for 48 h in PBS containing 0.05% Nonidet P-40 (NP40) (or 20% w/v digitonin for H-2 IA assays) in the presence of a protease inhibitor cocktail. The final concentrations of protease inhibitors (each from CalBioChem, La Jolla, Calif.) were 1 mM PMSF, 1.3 nM 1.10 phenanthroline, 73 μM pepstatin A, 8 mM EDTA, 6 mM N-ethylmaleimide (for Class II assays), and 200 μM N alpha-p-tosyl-L-lysine chloromethyl ketone (TLCK). All assays were performed at pH 7.0 with the exception of DRB1*0301, which was performed at pH 4.5, and DRB1*1601 (DR2w21β₁) and DRB4*0101 (DRw53), which were performed at pH 5.0. pH was adjusted as described elsewhere (see Sidney et al., in Current Protocols in Immunology, Margulies, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, Section 18.3, 1998).

Following incubation, MHC-peptide complexes were separated from free peptide by gel filtration on 7.8 mm×15 cm TSK200 columns (TosoHaas 16215, Montgomeryville, Pa.), eluted at 1.2 mls/min with PBS pH 6.5 containing 0.5% NP40 and 0.1% NaN₃. Because the large size of the radiolabeled peptide used for the DRB1*1501 (DR2w2β₁) assay makes separation of bound from unbound peaks more difficult under these conditions, all DRB1*1501 (DR2w2 μl) assays were performed using a 7.8 mm×30 cm TSK2000 column eluted at 0.6 mls/min. The eluate from the TSK columns was passed through a Beckman 170 radioisotope detector, and radioactivity was plotted and integrated using a Hewlett-Packard 3396A integrator, and the fraction of peptide bound was determined.

Radiolabeled peptides were iodinated using the chloramine-T method. Representative radiolabeled probe peptides utilized in each assay, and its assay specific IC₅₀ nM, are summarized in Tables IV and V. Typically, in preliminary experiments, each MHC preparation was titered in the presence of fixed amounts of radiolabeled peptides to determine the concentration of HLA molecules necessary to bind 10-20% of the total radioactivity. All subsequent inhibition and direct binding assays were performed using these HLA concentrations.

Since under these conditions [label]<[HLA] and IC₅₀>[HLA], the measured IC₅₀ values are reasonable approximations of the true K_(D) values. Peptide inhibitors are typically tested at concentrations ranging from 120 μg/ml to 1.2 ng/ml, and are tested in two to four completely independent experiments. To allow comparison of the data obtained in different experiments, a relative binding figure is calculated for each peptide by dividing the IC₅₀ of a positive control for inhibition by the IC₅₀ for each tested peptide (typically unlabeled versions of the radiolabeled probe peptide). For inter-experiment comparisons, relative binding values are compiled. These values can subsequently be converted back into IC₅₀ nM values by dividing the IC₅₀ nM of the positive controls for inhibition by the relative binding of the peptide of interest. This method of data compilation has proven to be the most accurate and consistent for comparing peptides that have been tested on different days, or with different lots of purified MHC.

Because the antibody used for HLA-DR purification (LB3.1) is α-chain specific, β₁ molecules are not separated from β₃ (and/or β₄ and β₅) molecules. The β₁ specificity of the binding assay is obvious in the cases of DRB1*0101 (DR1), DRB1*0802 (DR8w2), and DRB1*0803 (DR8w3), where no 3 is expressed. It has also been demonstrated for DRB1*0301 (DR3) and DRB3*0101 (DR52a), DRB1*0401 (DR4w4), DRB1*0404 (DR4w14), DRB1*0405 (DR4w15), DRB1*1101 (DR5), DRB1*1201 (DR5w12), DRB1*1302 (DR6w19) and DRB1*0701 (DR7). The problem of β chain specificity for DRB1*1501 (DR2w2β₁), DRB5*0101 (DR2w2β₂), DRB1*1601 (DR2w21β₁), DRB5*0201 (DR51Dw21), and DRB4*0101 (DRw53) assays is circumvented by the use of fibroblasts. Development and validation of assays with regard to DRβ molecule specificity have been described previously (see, e.g., Southwood et al., J. Immunol. 160:3363-3373, 1998).

Binding assays as outlined above may be used to analyze supermotif and/or motif-bearing epitopes as, for example, described in Example 2.

Example 2 Identification of HLA Supermotif- and Motif-Bearing CTL Candidate Epitopes

Vaccine compositions of the invention may include multiple epitopes that comprise multiple HLA supermotifs or motifs to achieve broad population coverage. This example illustrates the identification of supermotif- and motif-bearing epitopes for the inclusion in such a vaccine composition. Calculation of population coverage is performed using the strategy described below.

Computer Searches and Algorthims for Identification of Supermotif and/or Motif-Bearing Epitopes

The searches performed to identify the motif-bearing peptide sequences in Examples 2 and 5 employ protein sequence data for prostate cancer-associated antigens.

Computer searches for epitopes bearing HLA Class I or Class II supermotifs or motifs were performed as follows. All translated protein sequences were analyzed using a text string search software program, e.g., MotifSearch 1.4 (D. Brown, San Diego) to identify potential peptide sequences containing appropriate HLA binding motifs; alternative programs are readily produced in accordance with information in the art in view of the motif/supermotif disclosure herein. Furthermore, such calculations can be made mentally.

Identified A2-, A3-, and DR-supermotif sequences were scored using polynomial algorithms to predict their capacity to bind to specific HLA-Class I or Class II molecules. These polynomial algorithms take into account both extended and refined motifs (that is, to account for the impact of different amino acids at different positions), and are essentially based on the premise that the overall affinity (or ΔG) of peptide-HLA molecule interactions can be approximated as a linear polynomial function of the type: “ΔG”=a _(1i) ×a _(2i) ×a _(3i) . . . ×a _(ni) where a_(ji) is a coefficient which represents the effect of the presence of a given amino acid (i) at a given position (i) along the sequence of a peptide of n amino acids. The crucial assumption of this method is that the effects at each position are essentially independent of each other (i.e., independent binding of individual side-chains). When residue j occurs at position i in the peptide, it is assumed to contribute a constant amount j_(i) to the free energy of binding of the peptide irrespective of the sequence of the rest of the peptide. This assumption is justified by studies from our laboratories that demonstrated that peptides are bound to MHC and recognized by T cells in essentially an extended conformation (data omitted herein).

The method of derivation of specific algorithm coefficients has been described in Gulukota et al., J. Mol. Biol. 267:1258-126, 1997; (see also Sidney et al., Human Immunol. 45:79-93, 1996; and Southwood et al., J. Immunol. 160:3363-3373, 1998). Briefly, for all i positions, anchor and non-anchor alike, the geometric mean of the average relative binding (ARB) of all peptides carrying j is calculated relative to the remainder of the group, and used as the estimate of j_(i). For Class II peptides, if multiple alignments are possible, only the highest scoring alignment is utilized, following an iterative procedure. To calculate an algorithm score of a given peptide in a test set, the ARB values corresponding to the sequence of the peptide are multiplied. If this product exceeds a chosen threshold, the peptide is predicted to bind. Appropriate thresholds are chosen as a function of the degree of stringency of prediction desired.

Selection of HLA-A2 Supertype Cross-Reactive Peptides

The complete protein sequences of the prostate cancer-associated antigens PAP, PSA, PSM, and hK2 were obtained from GenBank and scanned, utilizing motif identification software, to identify 8-, 9-, 10-, and 11-mer sequences containing the HLA-A2-supermotif main anchor specificity.

HLA-A2 supermotif-bearing sequences are shown in Table VII. These sequences are then scored using the A2 algorithm and the peptides corresponding to the positive-scoring sequences are synthesized and tested for their capacity to bind purified HLA-A*0201 molecules in vitro (HLA-A*0201 is considered a prototype A2 supertype molecule).

Examples of peptides that were identified that bind to HLA-A*0201 with IC₅₀ values ≦500 nM are shown in Tables XXII and XXIII. These peptides were then tested for the capacity to bind to additional A2-supertype molecules (A*0202, A*0203, A*0206, and A*6802). Peptides that bind to at least three of the five A2-supertype alleles tested are deemed A2-supertype cross-reactive binders. Preferred peptides bind at an affinity equal to or less than 500 nM to three or more HLA-A2 supertype molecules. Examples of such peptides are set out in Table XXIII. (Due to the homology described above, a number of CTL and HTL epitopes are represented in both the PSA and hK2 antigens. This is represented in Tables XXIII and XXIV by the headings source and alternate source.)

Selection of HLA-A3 Supermotif-Bearing Epitopes

The protein sequences scanned above were also examined for the presence of peptides with the HLA-A3-supermotif primary anchors using methodology similar to that performed to identify HLA-A2 supermotif-bearing epitopes.

Peptides corresponding to the supermotif-bearing sequences are then synthesized and tested for binding to HLA-A*0301 and HLA-A*1101 molecules, the two most prevalent A3-supertype alleles. The peptides that are found to bind one of the two alleles with binding affinities of ≦500 nM, preferably ≦200 nM, are then tested for binding cross-reactivity to the other common A3-supertype alleles (A*3101, A*3301, and A*6801) to identify those that can bind at least three of the five HLA-A3-supertype molecules tested.

Selection of HLA-B7 Supermotif Bearing Epitopes

The same target antigen protein sequences were also analyzed to identify HLA-B7-supermotif-bearing sequences. The corresponding peptides are then synthesized and tested for binding to HLA-B*0702, the most common B7-supertype allele (i.e., the prototype B7 supertype allele). Those peptides that bind B*0702 with IC₅₀ of ≦500 nM, preferably ≦200 nM, are then tested for binding to other common B7-supertype molecules (B*3501, B*5101, B*5301, and B*5401) to identify those peptides that are capable of binding to three or more of the five B7-supertype alleles tested.

Selection of A1 and A24 Motif-Bearing Epitopes

To further increase population coverage, HLA-A1 and -A24 epitopes can also be incorporated into vaccine constructs. An analysis of the protein sequence data from the target antigens utilized above was performed to identify HLA-A1- and A24-motif-containing sequences. Peptides are then synthesized and tested for binding.

Peptides that bear other supermotifs and/or motifs can be assessed for binding or cross-reactive binding in an analogous manner.

Example 3 Confirmation of Immunogenicity

Cross-reactive candidate CTL A2-supermotif-bearing peptides that are identified as described in Example 2 were selected for in vitro immunogenicity testing. Examples of immunogenic HLA-A2 cross-reactive binding peptides that bind to at least 3/5 HLA-A2 supertype family members at an IC₅₀ of 200 nM or less are shown in Table XXV. Testing was performed using the following methodology:

Target Cell Lines for Cellular Screening:

The 0.221A2.1 cell line, produced by transferring the HLA-A2.1 gene into the HLA-A, -B, -C null mutant human B-lymphoblastoid cell line 721.221, is used as the peptide-loaded target to measure activity of HLA-A2.1-restricted CTL. This cell line is grown in RPMI-1640 medium supplemented with antibiotics, sodium pyruvate, nonessential amino acids and 10% (v/v) heat inactivated FCS. Cells that express an antigen of interest, or transfectants comprising the gene encoding the antigen of interest, can be used as target cells to test the ability of peptide-specific CTLs to recognize endogenous antigen.

Primary CTL Induction Cultures:

Generation of Dendritic Cells (DC): PBMCs are thawed in RPMI with 30 μg/ml DNAse, washed twice and resuspended in complete medium (RPMI-1640 plus 5% AB human serum, non-essential amino acids, sodium pyruvate, L-glutamine and penicillin/strpetomycin). The monocytes are purified by plating 10×10⁶ PBMC/well in a 6-well plate. After 2 hours at 37° C., the non-adherent cells are removed by gently shaking the plates and aspirating the supernatants. The wells are washed a total of three times with 3 ml RPMI to remove most of the non-adherent and loosely adherent cells. Three ml of complete medium containing 50 ng/ml of GM-CSF and 1,000 U/ml of IL-4 are then added to each well. TNFα is added to the DCs on day 6 at 75 ng/ml and the cells are used for CTL induction cultures on day 7.

Induction of CTL with DC and Peptide: CD8+ T-cells are isolated by positive selection with Dynal immunomagnetic beads (Dynabeads® M-450) and the detacha-bead® reagent. Typically about 200-250×10⁶ PBMC are processed to obtain 24×10⁶ CD8⁺T-cells (enough for a 48-well plate culture). Briefly, the PBMCs are thawed in RPMI with 30 μg/ml DNAse, washed once with PBS containing 1% human AB serum and resuspended in PBS/1% AB serum at a concentration of 20×10⁶ cells/ml. The magnetic beads are washed 3 times with PBS/AB serum, added to the cells (140 μl beads/20×10⁶ cells) and incubated for 1 hour at 4° C. with continuous mixing. The beads and cells are washed 4× with PBS/AB serum to remove the nonadherent cells and resuspended at 100×10⁶ cells/ml (based on the original cell number) in PBS/AB serum containing 100 μl/ml detacha-bead® reagent and 30 μg/ml DNAse. The mixture is incubated for 1 hour at room temperature with continuous mixing. The beads are washed again with PBS/AB/DNAse to collect the CD8+ T-cells. The DC are collected and centrifuged at 1300 rpm for 5-7 minutes, washed once with PBS with 1% BSA, counted and pulsed with 40 μg/ml of peptide at a cell concentration of 1-2×10⁶/ml in the presence of 3 μg/ml B₂-microglobulin for 4 hours at 20° C. The DC are then irradiated (4,200 rads), washed 1 time with medium and counted again.

Setting up induction cultures: 0.25 ml cytokine-generated DC (@1×10⁵ cells/ml) are co-cultured with 0.25 ml of CD8+ T-cells (@2×10⁶ cell/ml) in each well of a 48-well plate in the presence of 10 ng/ml of IL-7. Recombinant human IL10 is added the next day at a final concentration of 10 ng/ml and rhuman IL2 is added 48 hours later at 10 IU/ml.

Restimulation of the induction cultures with peptide-pulsed adherent cells: Seven and fourteen days after the primary induction the cells are restimulated with peptide-pulsed adherent cells. The PBMCS are thawed and washed twice with RPMI and DNAse. The cells are resuspended at 5×10⁶ cells/ml and irradiated at ˜4200 rads. The PBMCs are plated at 2×10⁶ in 0.5 ml complete medium per well and incubated for 2 hours at 37° C. The plates are washed twice with RPMI by tapping the plate gently to remove the nonadherent cells and the adherent cells pulsed with 10 μg/ml of peptide in the presence of 3 μg/ml β₂ microglobulin in 0.25 ml RPMI/5% AB per well for 2 hours at 37° C. Peptide solution from each well is aspirated and the wells are washed once with RPMI. Most of the media is aspirated from the induction cultures (CD8+ cells) and brought to 0.5 ml with fresh media. The cells are then transferred to the wells containing the peptide-pulsed adherent cells. Twenty four hours later rhuman IL10 is added at a final concentration of 10 ng/ml and rhuman IL2 is added the next day and again 2-3 days later at 50 IU/ml (Tsai et al., Critical Reviews in Immunology 18(1-2):65-75, 1998). Seven days later the cultures are assayed for CTL activity in a ⁵¹Cr release assay. In some experiments the cultures are assayed for peptide-specific recognition in the in situ IFNγ ELISA at the time of the second restimulation followed by assay of endogenous recognition 7 days later. After expansion, activity is measured in both assays for a side by side comparison.

Measurement of CTL Lytic Activity by ⁵¹Cr Release.

Seven days after the second restimulation, cytotoxicity is determined in a standard (5 hr) ⁵¹Cr release assay by assaying individual wells at a single E:T. Peptide-pulsed targets are prepared by incubating the cells with 10 g/ml peptide overnight at 37° C.

Adherent target cells are removed from culture flasks with trypsin-EDTA. Target cells are labelled with 200 μCi of ⁵¹Cr sodium chromate (Dupont, Wilmington, Del.) for 1 hour at 37° C. Labelled target cells are resuspended at 10⁶ per ml and diluted 1:10 with K562 cells at a concentration of 3.3×10⁶/ml (an NK-sensitive erythroblastoma cell line used to reduce non-specific lysis). Target cells (100 μl) and 10011 of effectors are plated in 96 well round-bottom plates and incubated for 5 hours at 37° C. At that time, 100 μl of supernatant are collected from each well and percent lysis is determined according to the formula: [(cpm of the test sample-cpm of the spontaneous ⁵¹Cr release sample)/(cpm of the maximal ⁵¹Cr release sample-cpm of the spontaneous ⁵¹Cr release sample)]×100. Maximum and spontaneous release are determined by incubating the labelled targets with 1% Trition X-100 and media alone, respectively. A positive culture is defined as one in which the specific lysis (sample-background) is 10% or higher in the case of individual wells and is 15% or more at the 2 highest E:T ratios when expanded cultures are assayed.

In Situ Measurement of Human γIFN Production as an Indicator of Peptide-Specific and Endogenous Recognition

Immulon 2 plates are coated with mouse anti-human IFNγ monoclonal antibody (4 μg/ml 0.1M NaHCO₃, pH8.2) overnight at 4° C. The plates are washed with Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺-free PBS/0.05% Tween 20 and blocked with PBS/10% FCS for 2 hours, after which the CTLs (100 μl/well) and targets (100 μl/well) are added to each well, leaving empty wells for the standards and blanks (which received media only). The target cells, either peptide-pulsed or endogenous targets, are used at a concentration of 1×10⁶ cells/ml. The plates are incubated for 48 hours at 37° C. with 5% CO₂.

Recombinant human IFNγ is added to the standard wells starting at 400 pg or 1200 pg/100 μl/well and the plate incubated for 2 hours at 37° C. The plates are washed and 100 μl of biotinylated mouse anti-human IFNγ monoclonal antibody (2 μg/ml in PBS/3% FCS/0.05% Tween 20) are added and incubated for 2 hours at room temperature. After washing again, 100 μl HRP-streptavidin (1:4000) are added and the plates incubated for 1 hour at room temperature. The plates are then washed 6× with wash buffer, 100 μl/well developing solution (TMB 1:1) are added, and the plates allowed to develop for 5-15 minutes. The reaction is stopped with 50 μl/well 1M H₃PO₄ and read at OD450. A culture is considered positive if it measured at least 50 pg of IFNγ/well above background and is twice the background level of expression.

CTL Expansion. Those cultures that demonstrate specific lytic activity against peptide-pulsed targets and/or tumor targets are expanded over a two week period with anti-CD3. Briefly, 5×10⁴ CD8+ cells are added to a T25 flask containing the following: 1×10⁶ irradiated (4,200 rad) PBMC (autologous or allogeneic) per ml, 2×10⁵ irradiated (8,000 rad) EBV-transformed cells per ml, and OKT3 (anti-CD3) at 30 ng per ml in RPMI-1640 containing 10% (v/v) human AB serum, non-essential amino acids, sodium pyruvate, 25 μM 2-mercaptoethanol, L-glutamine and penicillin/streptomycin. Rhuman IL2 is added 24 hours later at a final concentration of 200 IU/ml and every 3 days thereafter with fresh media at 50 IU/ml. The cells are split if the cell concentration exceeded 1×10⁶/ml and the cultures are assayed between days 13 and 15 at E:T ratios of 30, 10, 3 and 1:1 in the ⁵¹Cr release assay or at 1×10⁶/ml in the in situ IFNγ assay using the same targets as before the expansion.

Cultures are expanded in the absence of anti-CD3⁺ as follows. Those cultures that demonstrate specific lytic activity against peptide and endogenous targets are selected and 5×10⁴ CD8⁺ cells are added to a T25 flask containing the following: 1×10⁶ autologous PBMC per ml which have been peptide-pulsed with 10 μg/ml peptide for 2 hours at 37° C. and irradiated (4,200 rad); 2×10⁵ irradiated (8,000 rad) EBV-transformed cells per ml RPMI-1640 containing 10% (v/v) human AB serum, non-essential AA, sodium pyruvate, 25 mM 2-ME, L-glutamine and gentamicin.

Immunogenicity of A2 Supermotif-Bearing Peptides

A2-supermotif cross-reactive binding peptides were tested in the cellular assay for the ability to induce peptide-specific CTL in normal individuals. In this analysis, a peptide is considered to be an epitope if it induces peptide-specific CTLs in at least 2 donors (unless otherwise noted) and preferably, also recognizes the endogenously expressed peptide. Examples of immunogenic peptides are shown in Table XXIV.

Immunogenicity is additionally confirmed using PBMCs isolated from cancer patients. Briefly, PBMCs are isolated from patients with prostate cancer, re-stimulated with peptide-pulsed monocytes and assayed for the ability to recognize peptide-pulsed target cells as well as transfected cells endogenously expressing the antigen.

Evaluation of A*03/A11 Immunogenicity

HLA-A3 supermotif-bearing cross-reactive binding peptides are also evaluated for immunogenicity using methodology analogous for that used to evaluate the immunogenicity of the HLA-A2 supermotif peptides.

Evaluation of B7 Immunogenicity

Immunogenicity screening of the B7-supertype cross-reactive binding peptides identified in Example 2 are evaluated in a manner analogous to the evaluation of A2-and A3-supermotif-bearing peptides.

Peptides bearing other supermotifs and/or motifs, e.g., HLA-A1, HLA-a24 etc. are also evaluated using similar methodology

Example 4 Implementation of the Extended Supermotif to Improve the Binding Capacity of Native Epitopes by Creating Analogs

HLA motifs and supermotifs (comprising primary and/or secondary residues) are useful in the identification and preparation of highly cross-reactive native peptides, as demonstrated herein. Moreover, the definition of HLA motifs and supermotifs also allows one to engineer highly cross-reactive epitopes by identifying residues within a native peptide sequence which can be analoged, or “fixed” to confer upon the peptide certain characteristics, e.g. greater cross-reactivity within the group of HLA molecules that comprise a supertype, and/or greater binding affinity for some or all of those HLA molecules. Examples of analog peptides that exhibit modulated binding affinity are set forth in this example.

Analoging at Primary Anchor Residues

Peptide engineering strategies were implemented to further increase the cross-reactivity of the epitopes identified above (see, e.g., Table XXII). On the basis of the data disclosed, e.g., in related and co-pending U.S. Ser. No. 09/226,775, the main anchors of A2-supermotif-bearing peptides are altered, for example, to introduce a preferred L, I, V, or M at position 2, and I or V at the C-terminus.

Peptides that exhibit at least weak A*0201 binding (IC₅₀ of 5000 nM or less), and carrying suboptimal anchor residues at either position 2, the C-terminal position, or both, can be fixed by introducing canonical substitutions (typically L at position 2 and V at the C-terminus). Those analoged peptides that show at least a three-fold increase in A*0201 binding and bind with an IC₅₀ of 500 nM, or preferably 200 nM, or less are then tested for A2 cross-reactive binding along with their wild-type (WT) counterparts. Analoged peptides that bind at least three of the five A2 supertype alleles are then selected for cellular screening analysis.

Additionally, the selection of analogs for cellular screening analysis is further restricted by the capacity of the WT parent peptide to bind at least weakly, i.e., bind at an IC₅₀ of 5000 nM or less, to three of more A2 supertype alleles. The rationale for this requirement is that the WT peptides must be present endogenously in sufficient quantity to be biologically relevant. Analoged peptides have been shown to have increased immunogenicity and cross-reactivity by T cells specific for the WT epitope (see, e.g., Parkhurst et al., J. Immunol. 157:2539, 1996; and Pogue et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92:8166, 1995).

In the cellular screening of these peptide analogs, it is important to demonstrate that analog-specific CTLs are also able to recognize the wild-type peptide and, when possible, tumor targets that endogenously express the epitope.

Peptides that were analoged at primary anchor residues, generally by adding a preferred resiude at a primary anchor position, were synthesized and assessed for enhanced binding to A*0201 and/or enhanced cross-reactive binding. Examples of analoged peptides that exhibit increased binding and/or cross-reactivity are shown in Table XXIII.

Analogs exhibiting altered binding characteristics are then selected for cellular screening studies. Examples are shown in Table XXIV.

Using methodology similar to that used to develop HLA-A2 analogs, analogs of HLA-A3 and HLA-B7 supermotif-bearing epitopes are also generated. Analogous strategies can be used for peptides bearing other supermotifs/motifs as well. For example, peptides binding at least weakly to 3/5 of the A3-supertype molecules may be engineered at primary anchor residues to possess a preferred residue (V, S, M, or A) at position 2. The analog peptides are then tested for the ability to bind A*03 and A*11 (prototype A3 supertype alleles). Those peptides that demonstrate ≦500 nM binding capacity, often ≦200 nM binding values, are then tested for A3-supertype cross-reactivity. B7 supermotif-bearing peptides may, for example, be engineered to possess a preferred residue (V, I, L, or F) at the C-terminal primary anchor position, as demonstrated by Sidney et al. (J. Immunol. 157:3480-3490, 1996) and tested for binding to B7 supertype alleles.

Analoging at Secondary Anchor Residues

Moreover, HLA supermotifs are of value in engineering highly cross-reactive peptides and/or peptides that bind HLA molecules with increased affinity by identifying particular residues at secondary anchor positions that are associated with such properties. For example, the binding capacity of a B7 supermotif-bearing peptide representing a discreet single amino acid substitution at position 1 can be analyzed. A peptide can, for example, be analoged to substitute L with F at position I and subsequently be evaluated for increased binding affinity/and or increased cross-reactivity. This procedure will identify analoged peptides with modulated binding affinity.

Engineered analogs with sufficiently improved binding capacity or cross-reactivity are tested for immunogenicity as above.

Other Analoging Strategies

Another form of peptide analoging, unrelated to the anchor positions, involves the substitution of a cysteine with α-amino butyric acid. Due to its chemical nature, cysteine has the propensity to form disulfide bridges and sufficiently alter the peptide structurally so as to reduce binding capacity. Subtitution of α-amino butyric acid for cysteine not only alleviates this problem, but has been shown to improve binding and crossbinding capabilities in some instances (see, e.g., the review by Sette et al., In: Persistent Viral Infections, Eds. R. Ahmed and I. Chen, John Wiley & Sons, England, 1999).

In conclusion, these data demonstrate that by the use of even single amino acid substitutions, it is possible to increase the binding affinity and/or cross-reactivity of peptide ligands for HLA supertype molecules.

Example 5 Identification of Peptide Epitope Sequences with HLA-DR Binding Motifs

Peptide epitopes bearing an HLA class II supermotif or motif may also be identified as outlined below using methodology similar to that described in Examples 1-3.

Selection of HLA-DR-Supermotif-Bearing Epitopes

To identify HLA class II HTL epitopes, the prostate cancer-associate antigen protein sequences were analyzed for the presence of sequences bearing an HLA-DR-motif or supermotif. Specifically, 15-mer sequences are selected comprising a DR-supermotif, further comprising a 9-mer core, and three-residue N- and C-terminal flanking regions (15 amino acids total).

Protocols for predicting peptide binding to DR molecules have been developed (Southwood et al., J. Immunol. 160:3363-3373, 1998). These protocols, specific for individual DR molecules, allow the scoring, and ranking, of 9-mer core regions. Each protocol not only scores peptide sequences for the presence of DR-supermotif primary anchors (i.e., at position 1 and position 6) within a 9-mer core, but additionally evaluates sequences for the presence of secondary anchors. Using allele specific selection tables (see, e.g., Southwood et al., ibid.), it has been found that these protocols efficiently select peptide sequences with a high probability of binding a particular DR molecule. Additionally, it has been found that performing these protocols in tandem, specifically those for DR1, DR4w4, and DR7, can efficiently select DR cross-reactive peptides.

The prostate antigen-derived peptides identified above are tested for their binding capacity to various common HLA-DR molecules. All peptides are initially tested for binding to the DR molecules in the primary panel: DR1, DR4w4, and DR7. Peptides binding at least 2 of these 3 DR molecules with an IC₅₀ value of 1000 nM or less, were then tested for binding to DR5*0101, DRB1*1501, DRB1*1101, DRB1*0802, and DRB1*1302. Peptides were considered to be cross-reactive DR supertype binders if they bound at an IC₅₀ value of 1000 nM or less to at least 5 of the 8 alleles tested.

Following the strategy outlined above DR supermotif-bearing sequences were identified within the prostate antigen protein sequence. Generally, these sequences are then scored for the combined DR 1-4-7 algorithms. The postive-scoring peptides are synthesized and tested for binding to HLA-DRB1*0101, DRB1*0401, DRB1*0701. Those that bind at least 2 of the 3 alleles are then tested for binding to secondary DR supertype alleles: DRB5*0101, DRB1*1501, DRB1*1101, DRB1*0802, and DRB1*1302.

Selection of DR3 Motif Peptides

Because HLA-DR3 is an allele that is prevalent in Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic populations, DR3 binding capacity is an important criterion in the selection of HTL epitopes. However, data generated previously indicated that DR3 only rarely cross-reacts with other DR alleles (Sidney et al., J. Immunol. 149:2634-2640, 1992; Geluk et al., J. Immunol. 152:5742-5748, 1994; Southwood et al., J. Immunol. 160:3363-3373, 1998). This is not entirely surprising in that the DR3 peptide-binding motif appears to be distinct from the specificity of most other DR alleles. For maximum efficiency in developing vaccine candidates it would be desirable for DR3 motifs to be clustered in proximity with DR supermotif regions. Thus, peptides shown to be candidates may also be assayed for their DR3 binding capacity. However, in view of the distinct binding specificity of the DR3 motif, peptides binding only to DR3 can also be considered as candidates for inclusion in a vaccine formulation.

To efficiently identify peptides that bind DR3, the PSA, PSM, PAP, and hK2 protein sequences were analyzed for sequences carrying one of the two DR3 specific binding motifs (Table III) reported by Geluk et al. (J. Immunol. 152:5742-5748, 1994). The corresponding peptides are then synthesized and tested for the ability to bind DR3 with an affinity of 1000 nM or better, i.e., less than 1000 nM.

Additionally, the DR3 binders are also tested for binding to the DR supertype alleles. Conversely, the DR supertype cross-reactive binding peptides are also tested for DR3 binding capacity.

DR3 binding epitopes identified in this manner are then included in vaccine compositions with DR supermotif-bearing peptide epitopes.

Similarly to the case of HLA class I motif-bearing peptides, the class II motif-bearing peptides are analoged to improve affinity or cross-reactivity. For example, aspartic acid at position 4 of the 9-mer core sequence is an optimal residue for DR3 binding, and substitution for that residue often improves DR 3 binding.

For example, a number of HLA-DR supermotif and DR-3 motif-bearing prostate antigen-associated sequences have been identified. The number in each category is summarized in Table XXV.

Example 6 Immunogenicity of HTL Epitopes

This example determines immunogenic DR supermotif- and DR3 motif-bearing epitopes among those identified using the methodology in Example 5.

Immunogenicity of HTL epitopes are evaluated in a manner analogous to the determination of immunogenicity of CTL epitopes by assessing the ability to stimulate HTL responses and/or by using appropriate transgenic mouse models. Immunogenicity is determined by screening for: 1.) in vitro primary induction using normal PBMC or 2.) recall responses from cancer patient PBMCs.

Example 7 Calculation of Phenotypic Frequencies of HLA-Supertypes in Various Ethnic Backgrounds to Determine Breadth of Population Coverage

This example illustrates the assessment of the breadth of population coverage of a vaccine composition comprised of multiple epitopes comprising multiple supermotifs and/or motifs.

In order to analyze population coverage, gene frequencies of HLA alleles were determined. Gene frequencies for each HLA allele were calculated from antigen or allele frequencies utilizing the binomial distribution formulae gf=1−(SQRT(1−af)) (see, e.g., Sidney et al., Human Immunol. 45:79-93, 1996). To obtain overall phenotypic frequencies, cumulative gene frequencies were calculated, and the cumulative antigen frequencies derived by the use of the inverse formula [af=1−(1−Cgf)²].

Where frequency data was not available at the level of DNA typing, correspondence to the serologically defined antigen frequencies was assumed. To obtain total potential supertype population coverage no linkage disequilibrium was assumed, and only alleles confirmed to belong to each of the supertypes were included (minimal estimates). Estimates of total potential coverage achieved by inter-loci combinations were made by adding to the A coverage the proportion of the non-A covered population that could be expected to be covered by the B alleles considered (e.g., total=A+B*(1−A)). Confirmed members of the A3-like supertype are A3, A11, A31, A*3301, and A*6801. Although the A3-like supertype may also include A34, A66, and A*7401, these alleles were not included in overall frequency calculations. Likewise, confirmed members of the A2-like supertype family are A*0201, A*0202, A*0203, A*0204, A*0205, A*0206, A*0207, A*6802, and A*6901. Finally, the B7-like supertype-confirmed alleles are: B7, B*3501-03, B51, B*5301, B*5401, B*5501-2, B*5601, B*6701, and B*7801 (potentially also B*1401, B*3504-06, B*4201, and B*5602).

Population coverage achieved by combining the A2-, A3- and B7-supertypes is approximately 86% in five major ethnic groups (see Table XXI). Coverage may be extended by including peptides bearing the A1 and A24 motifs. On average, A1 is present in 12% and A24 in 29% of the population across five different major ethnic groups (Caucasian, North American Black, Chinese, Japanese, and Hispanic). Together, these alleles are represented with an average frequency of 39% in these same ethnic populations. The total coverage across the major ethnicities when A1 and A24 are combined with the coverage of the A2-, A3- and B7-supertype alleles is >95%. An analogous approach can be used to estimate population coverage achieved with combinations of class II motif-bearing epitopes.

Example 8 Recognition of Generation of Endogenous Processed Antigens after Priming

This example determines that CTL induced by native or analogued peptide epitopes identified and selected as described in Examples 1-6 recognize endogenously synthesized, i.e., native antigens, using a transgenic mouse model.

Effector cells isolated from transgenic mice that are immunized with peptide epitopes (as described, e.g., in Wentworth et al., Mol. Immunol. 32:603, 1995), for example HLA-A2 supermotif-bearing epitopes, are re-stimulated in vitro using peptide-coated stimulator cells. Six days later, effector cells are assayed for cytotoxicity and the cell lines that contain peptide-specific cytotoxic activity are further re-stimulated. An additional six days later, these cell lines are tested for cytotoxic activity on ⁵¹Cr labeled Jurkat-A2.1/K^(b) target cells in the absence or presence of peptide, and also tested on ⁵¹Cr labeled target cells bearing the endogenously synthesized antigen, i.e. prostate tumor cells or cells that are stably transfected with TAA expression vectors.

The result will demonstrate that CTL lines obtained from animals primed with peptide epitope recognize endogenously synthesized antigen. The choice of transgenic mouse model to be used for such an analysis depends upon the epitope(s) that is being evaluated. In addition to HLA-A*0201/K^(b) transgenic mice, several other transgenic mouse models including mice with human A11, which may also be used to evaluate A3 epitopes, and B7 alleles have been characterized and others (e.g., transgenic mice for HLA-A1 and A24) are being developed. HLA-DR1 and HLA-DR3 mouse models have also been developed, which may be used to evaluate HTL epitopes.

Example 9 Activity of CTL-HTL Conjugated Epitopes in Transgenic Mice

This example illustrates the induction of CTLs and HTLs in transgenic mice by use of a tumor associated antigen CTL/HTL peptide conjugate whereby the vaccine composition comprises peptides to be administered to a cancer patient. The peptide composition can comprise multiple CTL and/or HTL epitopes and further, can comprise epitopes selected from multiple-tumor associated antigens. The epitopes are identified using methodology as described in Examples 1-6 This analysis demonstrates the enhanced immunogenicity that can be achieved by inclusion of one or more HTL epitopes in a vaccine composition. Such a peptide composition can comprise an HTL epitope conjugated to a preferred CTL epitope containing, for example, at least one CTL epitope selected from Table XXIII, or other analogs of that epitope. The peptides may be lipidated, if desired.

Immunization procedures: Immunization of transgenic mice is performed as described (Alexander et al., J. Immunol. 159:4753-4761, 1997). For example, A2/K^(b) mice, which are transgenic for the human HLA A2.1 allele and are useful for the assessment of the immunogenicity of HLA-A*0201 motif- or HLA-A2 supermotif-bearing epitopes, are primed subcutaneously (base of the tail) with a 0.1 ml of peptide in Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant, or if the peptide composition is a lipidated CTL/HTL conjugate, in DMSO/saline or if the peptide composition is a polypeptide, in PBS or Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant. Seven days after priming, splenocytes obtained from these animals are restimulated with syngenic irradiated LPS-activated lymphoblasts coated with peptide.

The target cells for peptide-specific cytotoxicity assays are Jurkat cells transfected with the HLA-A2.1/K^(b) chimeric gene (e.g., Vitiello et al., J. Exp. Med. 173:1007, 1991).

In vitro CTL activation: One week after priming, spleen cells (30×10⁶ cells/flask) are co-cultured at 37° C. with syngeneic, irradiated (3000 rads), peptide coated lymphoblasts (10×10⁶ cells/flask) in 10 ml of culture medium/T25 flask. After six days, effector cells are harvested and assayed for cytotoxic activity.

Assay for cytotoxic activity: Target cells (1.0 to 1.5×10⁶) are incubated at 37° C. in the presence of 200 μl of ⁵¹Cr. After 60 minutes, cells are washed three times and resuspended in medium. Peptide is added where required at a concentration of 1 μg/ml. For the assay, 10⁴ ⁵¹Cr-labeled target cells are added to different concentrations of effector cells (final volume of 200 μl) in U-bottom 96-well plates. After a 6 hour incubation period at 37° C., a 0.1 ml aliquot of supernatant is removed from each well and radioactivity is determined in a Micromedic automatic gamma counter. The percent specific lysis is determined by the formula: percent specific release=100×(experimental release−spontaneous release)/(maximum release−spontaneous release). To facilitate comparison between separate CTL assays run under the same conditions, % ⁵¹Cr release data is expressed as lytic units/10⁶ cells. One lytic unit is arbitrarily defined as the number of effector cells required to achieve 30% lysis of 10,000 target cells in a 6 hour ⁵¹Cr release assay. To obtain specific lytic units/10⁶, the lytic units/10⁶ obtained in the absence of peptide is subtracted from the lytic units/10⁶ obtained in the presence of peptide. For example, if 30% ⁵¹Cr release is obtained at the effector (E): target (T) ratio of 50:1 (i.e., 5×10⁵ effector cells for 10,000 targets) in the absence of peptide and 5:1 (i.e., 5×10⁴ effector cells for 10,000 targets) in the presence of peptide, the specific lytic units would be: [(1/50,000)−(1/500,000)]×10⁶=18 LU.

The results are analyzed to assess the magnitude of the CTL responses of animals injected with the immunogenic CTL/HTL conjugate vaccine preparation. The magnitude and frequency of the response can also be compared to the the CTL response achieved using the CTL epitopes by themselves. Analyses similar to this may be performed to evaluate the immunogenicity of peptide conjugates containing multiple CTL epitopes and/or multiple HTL epitopes. In accordance with these procedures it is found that a CTL response is induced, and concomitantly that an HTL response is induced upon administration of such compositions.

Example 10 Selection of CTL and HTL Epitopes for Inclusion in a Cancer Vaccine

This example illustrates the procedure for the selection of peptide epitopes for vaccine compositions of the invention. The peptides in the composition can be in the form of a nucleic acid sequence, either single or one or more sequences (i.e., minigene) that encodes peptide(s), or may be single and/or polyepitopic peptides.

The following principles are utilized when selecting an array of epitopes for inclusion in a vaccine composition. Each of the following principles is balanced in order to make the selection.

Epitopes are selected which, upon administration, mimic immune responses that have been observed to be correlated with tumor clearance. For example, a vaccine can include 3-4 epitopes that come from at least one prostate cancer-associated antigen. Epitopes from one prostate cancer-associated antigen can be used in combination with epitopes from one or more additional TAAs to produce a vaccine that targets tumors with varying expression patterns of frequently-expressed TAAs as described, e.g., in Example 15.

Epitopes are preferably selected that have a binding affinity (IC₅₀) of 500 nM or less, often 200 nM or less, for an HLA class I molecule, or for a class II molecule, 1000 nM or less.

Sufficient supermotif bearing peptides, or a sufficient array of allele-specific motif bearing peptides, are selected to give broad population coverage. For example, epitopes are selected to provide at least 80% population coverage. A Monte Carlo analysis, a statistical evaluation known in the art, can be employed to assess breadth, or redundancy, of population coverage.

When selecting epitopes from cancer-related antigens it is often preferred to select analogs because the patient may have developed tolerance to the native epitope.

When creating a polyepitopic composition, e.g. a minigene, it is typically desirable to generate the smallest peptide possible that encompasses the epitopes of interest, although spacers or other flanking sequences can also be incorporated. The principles employed are often similar as those employed when selecting a peptide comprising nested epitopes. Additionally, however, upon determination of the nucleic acid sequence to be provided as a minigene, the peptide sequence encoded thereby is analyzed to determine whether any “junctional epitopes” have been created. A junctional epitope is a potential HLA binding epitope, as predicted, e.g., by motif analysis. Junctional epitopes are generally to be avoided because the recipient may bind to an HLA molecule and generate an immune response to that epitope, which is not present in a native protein sequence.

A vaccine composition comprised of selected peptides, when administered, is safe, efficacious, and elicits an immune response that results in tumor cell killing and reduction of tumor size or mass.

Example 11 Construction of Minigene Multi-Epitope DNA Plasmids

This example provides general guidance for the construction of a minigene expression plasmid. Minigene plasmids may, of course, contain various configurations of CTL and/or HTL epitopes or epitope analogs as described herein. Examples of the construction and evaluation of expression plasmids are described, for example, in co-pending U.S. Ser. No. 09/311,784 filed May 13, 1999.

A minigene expression plasmid may include multiple CTL and HTL peptide epitopes. In this example, HLA-A2, -A3, -B7 supermotif-bearing peptide epitopes and HLA-A1 and -A24 motif-bearing peptide epitopes are used in conjunction with DR supermotif-bearing epitopes and/or DR3 epitopes. HLA class I supermotif or motif-bearing peptide epitopes derived from multiple prostate cancer-associated antigens are selected such that multiple supermotifs/motifs are represented to ensure broad population coverage. Similarly, HLA class II epitopes are selected from multiple prostate cancer-associated antigens to provide broad population coverage, i.e. both HLA DR-1-4-7 supermotif-bearing epitopes and HLA DR-3 motif-bearing epitopes are selected for inclusion in the minigene construct. The selected CTL and HTL epitopes are then incorporated into a minigene for expression in an expression vector.

This example illustrates the methods to be used for construction of such a minigene-bearing expression plasmid. Other expression vectors that may be used for minigene compositions are available and known to those of skill in the art.

The minigene DNA plasmid contains a consensus Kozak sequence and a consensus murine kappa Ig-light chain signal sequence followed by CTL and/or HTL epitopes selected in accordance with principles disclosed herein. The sequence encodes an open reading frame fused to the Myc and His antibody epitope tag coded for by the pcDNA 3.1 Myc-His vector.

Overlapping oligonucleotides that can, for example, average about 70 nucleotides in length with 15 nucleotide overlaps, are synthesized and HPLC-purified. The oligonucleotides encode the selected peptide epitopes as well as appropriate linker nucleotides, Kozak sequence, and signal sequence. The final multiepitope minigene is assembled by extending the overlapping oligonucleotides in three sets of reactions using PCR. A Perkin/Elmer 9600 PCR machine is used and a total of 30 cycles are performed using the following conditions: 95° C. for 15 sec, annealing temperature (5° below the lowest calculated Tm of each primer pair) for 30 sec, and 72° C. for 1 min.

For example, a minigene can be prepared as follows. For a first PCR reaction, 5 μg of each of two oligonucleotides are annealed and extended: In an example using eight oligonucleotides, i.e., four pairs of primers, oligonucleotides 1+2, 3+4, 5+6, and 7+8 are combined in 100 μl reactions containing Pfu polymerase buffer (1×=10 mM KCL, 10 mM (NH₄)₂SO₄, 20 mM Tris-chloride, pH 8.75, 2 mM MgSO₄, 0.1% Triton X-100, 100 μg/ml BSA), 0.25 mM each dNTP, and 2.5 U of Pfu polymerase. The full-length dimer products are gel-purified, and two reactions containing the product of 1+2 and 3+4, and the product of 5+6 and 7+8 are mixed, annealed, and extended for 10 cycles. Half of the two reactions are then mixed, and 5 cycles of annealing and extension carried out before flanking primers are added to amplify the full length product. The full-length product is gel-purified and cloned into pCR-blunt (Invitrogen) and individual clones are screened by sequencing.

Example 12 The Plasmid Construct and the Degree to which it Induces Immunogenicity

The degree to which a plasmid construct, for example a plasmid constructed in accordance with Example 11, is able to induce immunogenicity can be evaluated in vitro by testing for epitope presentation by APC following transduction or transfection of the APC with an epitope-expressing nucleic acid construct. Such a study determines “antigenicity” and allows the use of human APC. The assay determines the ability of the epitope to be presented by the APC in a context that is recognized by a T cell by quantifying the density of epitope-HLA class I complexes on the cell surface. Quantitation can be performed by directly measuring the amount of peptide eluted from the APC (see, e.g., Sijts et al., J. Immunol. 156:683-692, 1996; Demotz et al., Nature 342:682-684, 1989); or the number of peptide-HLA class I complexes can be estimated by measuring the amount of lysis or lymphokine release induced by infected or transfected target cells, and then determining the concentration of peptide necessary to obtained equivalent levels of lysis or lymphokine release (see, e.g., Kageyama et al., J. Immunol. 154:567-576, 1995).

Atlernatively, immunogenicity can be evaluated through in vivo injections into mice and subsequent in vitro assessment of CTL and HTL activity, which are analysed using cytotoxicity and proliferation assays, respectively, as detailed e.g., in co-pending U.S. Ser. No. 09/311,784 filed May 13, 1999 and Alexander et al., Immunity 1:751-761, 1994.

For example, to assess the capacity of a DNA minigene construct (e.g., a pMin minigene construct generated as decribed in U.S. Ser. No. 09/311,784) containing at least one HLA-A2 supermotif peptide to induce CTLs in vivo, HLA-A2.1/K^(b) transgenic mice, for example, are immunized intramuscularly with 100 μg of naked cDNA. As a means of comparing the level of CTLs induced by cDNA immunization, a control group of animals is also immunized with an actual peptide composition that comprises multiple epitopes synthesized as a single polypeptide as they would be encoded by the minigene.

Splenocytes from immunized animals are stimulated twice with each of the respective compositions (peptide epitopes encoded in the minigene or the polyepitopic peptide), then assayed for peptide-specific cytotoxic activity in a ⁵¹Cr release assay. The results indicate the magnitude of the CTL response directed against the A2-restricted epitope, thus indicating the in vivo immunogenicity of the minigene vaccine and polyepitopic vaccine. It is, therefore, found that the minigene elicits immune responses directed toward the HLA-A2 supermotif peptide epitopes as does the polyepitopic peptide vaccine. A similar analysis is also performed using other HLA-A3 and HLA-B7 transgenic mouse models to assess CTL induction by HLA-A3 and HLA-B7 motif or supermotif epitopes.

To assess the capacity of a class II epitope encoding minigene to induce HTLs in vivo, DR transgenic mice, or for those epitope that cross react with the appropriate mouse MHC molecule, I-A^(b)-restricted mice, for example, are immunized intramuscularly with 100 μg of plasmid DNA. As a means of comparing the level of HTLs induced by DNA immunization, a group of control animals is also immunized with an actual peptide composition emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant. CD4+ T cells, i.e. HTLs, are purified from splenocytes of immunized animals and stimulated with each of the respective compositions (peptides encoded in the minigene). The HTL response is measured using a ³H-thymidine incorporation proliferation assay, (see, e.g., Alexander et al. Immunity 1:751-761, 1994). The results indicate the magnitude of the HTL response, thus demonstrating the in vivo immunogenicity of the minigene.

DNA minigenes, constructed as described in Example 11, may also be evaluated as a vaccine in combination with a boosting agent using a prime boost protocol. The boosting agent can consist of recombinant protein (e.g., Barnett et al., Aids Res. and Human Retroviruses 14, Supplement 3:S299-S309, 1998) or recombinant vaccinia, for example, expressing a minigene or DNA encoding the complete protein of interest (see, e.g., Hanke et al., Vaccine 16:439-445, 1998; Sedegah et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 95:7648-53, 1998; Hanke and McMichael, Immunol. Letters 66:177-181, 1999; and Robinson et al., Nature Med. 5:526-34, 1999).

For example, the efficacy of the DNA minigene used in a prime boost protocol is initially evaluated in transgenic mice. In this example, A2.1/K^(b) transgenic mice are immunized IM with 100 μg of a DNA minigene encoding the immunogenic peptides including at least one HLA-A2 supermotif-bearing peptide. After an incubation period (ranging from 3-9 weeks), the mice are boosted IP with 10⁷ pfu/mouse of a recombinant vaccinia virus expressing the same sequence encoded by the DNA minigene. Control mice are immunized with 100 μg of DNA or recombinant vaccinia without the minigene sequence, or with DNA encoding the minigene, but without the vaccinia boost. After an additional incubation period of two weeks, splenocytes from the mice are immediately assayed for peptide-specific activity in an ELISPOT assay. Additionally, splenocytes are stimulated in vitro with the A2-restricted peptide epitopes encoded in the minigene and recombinant vaccinia, then assayed for peptide-specific activity in an IFN-γ ELISA.

It is found that the minigene utilized in a prime-boost protocol elicits greater immune responses toward the HLA-A2 supermotif peptides than with DNA alone. Such an analysis can also be performed using HLA-A11 or HLA-B7 transgenic mouse models to assess CTL induction by HLA-A3 or HLA-B7 motif or supermotif epitopes.

The use of prime boost protocols in humans is described in Example 20.

Example 13 Peptide Composition for Prophylactic Uses

Vaccine compositions of the present invention are used to prevent cancer in persons who are at high risk for developing a tumor. For example, a polyepitopic peptide epitope composition (or a nucleic acid comprising the same) containing multiple CTL and HTL epitopes such as those selected in Examples 9 and/or 10, which are also selected to target greater than 80% of the population, is administered to an individual at high risk for prostate cancer. The composition is provided as a single polypeptide that encompasses multiple epitopes. The vaccine is administered in an aqueous carrier comprised of Freunds Incomplete Adjuvant. The dose of peptide for the initial immunization is from about 1 to about 50,000 μg, generally 100-5,000 μg, for a 70 kg patient. The initial administration of vaccine is followed by booster dosages at 4 weeks followed by evaluation of the magnitude of the immune response in the patient, by techniques that determine the presence of epitope-specific CTL populations in a PBMC sample. Additional booster doses are administered as required. The composition is found to be both safe and efficacious as a prophylaxis against cancer.

Alternatively, the polyepitopic peptide composition can be administered as a nucleic acid in accordance with methodologies known in the art and disclosed herein.

Example 14 Polyepitopic Vaccine Compositions Derived from Native TAA Sequences

A native TAA polyprotein sequence is screened, preferably using computer algorithms defined for each class I and/or class II supermotif or motif, to identify “relatively short” regions of the polyprotein that comprise multiple epitopes and is preferably less in length than an entire native antigen. This relatively short sequence that contains multiple distinct, even overlapping, epitopes is selected and used to generate a minigene construct. The construct is engineered to express the peptide, which corresponds to the native protein sequence. The “relatively short” peptide is generally less than 1000, 500, or 250 amino acids in length, often less than 100 amino acids in length, preferably less than 75 amino acids in length, and more preferably less than 50 amino acids in length. The protein sequence of the vaccine composition is selected because it has maximal number of epitopes contained within the sequence, i.e., it has a high concentration of epitopes. As noted herein, epitope motifs may be nested or overlapping (i.e., frame shifted relative to one another). For example, with frame shifted overlapping epitopes, two 9-mer epitopes and one 10-mer epitope can be present in a 10 amino acid peptide. Such a vaccine composition is administered for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes.

The vaccine composition will preferably include, for example, three CTL epitopes and at least one HTL epitope from multiple prostate cancer-associated antigens. This polyepitopic native sequence is administered either as a peptide or as a nucleic acid sequence which encodes the peptide. Alternatively, an analog can be made of this native sequence, whereby one or more of the epitopes comprise substitutions that alter the cross-reactivity and/or binding affinity properties of the polyepitopic peptide.

The embodiment of this example provides for the possibility that an as yet undiscovered aspect of immune system processing will apply to the native nested sequence and thereby facilitate the production of therapeutic or prophylactic immune response-inducing vaccine compositions. Additionally such an embodiment provides for the possibility of motif-bearing epitopes for an HLA makeup that is presently unknown. Furthermore, this embodiment (absent analogs) directs the immune response to multiple peptide sequences that are actually present in native TAAs thus avoiding the need to evaluate any junctional epitopes. Lastly, the embodiment provides an economy of scale when producing nucleic acid vaccine compositions.

Related to this embodiment, computer programs can be derived in accordance with principles in the art, which identify in a target sequence, the greatest number of epitopes per sequence length.

Example 15 Polyepitopic Vaccine Compositions Comprising Epitopes From Multiple Tumor-Associated Antigens

The prostate cancer-associated antigen peptide epitopes of the present invention are used in combination with each other, or with peptide epitopes from other target tumor-associated antigens to create a vaccine composition that is useful for the treatment of prostate tumors from multiple patients. Furthermore, a vaccine composition comprising epitopes from multiple tumor antigens also reduces the potential for escape mutants due to loss of expression of an individual tumor antigen.

The composition can be provided as a single polypeptide that incorporates the multiple epitopes from the various TAAs, or can be administered as a composition comprising one or more discrete epitopes. Alternatively, the vaccine can be administered as a minigene construct or as dendritic cells which have been loaded with the peptide epitopes in vitro.

Example 16 Use of Peptides to Evaluate an Immune Response

Peptides of the invention may be used to analyze an immune response for the presence of specific CTL or HTL populations directed to a prostate cancer-associated antigen. Such an analysis may be performed using multimeric complexes as described, e.g., by Ogg et al., Science 279:2103-2106, 1998 and Greten et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:7568-7573, 1998. In the following example, peptides in accordance with the invention are used as a reagent for diagnostic or prognostic purposes, not as an immunogen.

In this example, highly sensitive human leukocyte antigen tetrameric complexes (“tetramers”) are used for a cross-sectional analysis of, for example, tumor-associated antigen HLA-A*0201-specific CTL frequencies from HLA A*0201-positive individuals at different stages of disease or following immunization using a TAA peptide containing an A*0201 motif. Tetrameric complexes are synthesized as described (Musey et al., N. Engl. J. Med. 337:1267, 1997). Briefly, purified HLA heavy chain (A*0201 in this example) and β2-microglobulin are synthesized by means of a prokaryotic expression system. The heavy chain is modified by deletion of the transmembrane-cytosolic tail and COOH-terminal addition of a sequence containing a BirA enzymatic biotinylation site. The heavy chain, β2-microglobulin, and peptide are refolded by dilution. The 45-kD refolded product is isolated by fast protein liquid chromatography and then biotinylated by BirA in the presence of biotin (Sigma, St. Louis, Mo.), adenosine 5′triphosphate and magnesium. Streptavidin-phycoerythrin conjugate is added in a 1:4 molar ratio, and the tetrameric product is concentrated to 1 mg/ml. The resulting product is referred to as tetramer-phycoerythrin.

For the analysis of patient blood samples, approximately one million PBMCs are centrifuged at 300 g for 5 minutes and resuspended in 50 μl of cold phosphate-buffered saline. Tri-color analysis is performed with the tetramer-phycoerythrin, along with anti-CD8-Tricolor, and anti-CD38. The PBMCs are incubated with tetramer and antibodies on ice for 30 to 60 min and then washed twice before formaldehyde fixation. Gates are applied to contain >99.98% of control samples. Controls for the tetramers include both A*0201-negative individuals and A*0201-positive uninfected donors. The percentage of cells stained with the tetramer is then determined by flow cytometry. The results indicate the number of cells in the PBMC sample that contain epitope-restricted CTLs, thereby readily indicating the extent of immune response to the TAA epitope, and thus the stage of tumor progression or exposure to a vaccine that elicits a protective or therapeutic response.

Example 17 Use of Peptide Epitopes to Evaluate Recall Responses

The peptide epitopes of the invention are used as reagents to evaluate T cell responses, such as acute or recall responses, in patients. Such an analysis may be performed on patients who are in remission, have a tumor, or who have been vaccinated with a prostate cancer-associated antigen vaccine.

For example, the class I restricted CTL response of persons who have been vaccinated may be analyzed. The vaccine may be any TAA vaccine. PBMC are collected from vaccinated individuals and HLA typed. Appropriate peptide epitopes of the invention that, optimally, bear supermotifs to provide cross-reactivity with multiple HLA supertype family members, are then used for analysis of samples derived from individuals who bear that HLA type.

PBMC from vaccinated individuals are separated on Ficoll-Histopaque density gradients (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.), washed three times in HBSS (GIBCO Laboratories), resuspended in RPMI-1640 (GIBCO Laboratories) supplemented with L-glutamine (2 mM), penicillin (50 U/ml), streptomycin (50 μg/ml), and Hepes (10 mM) containing 10% heat-inactivated human AB serum (complete RPMI) and plated using microculture formats. A synthetic peptide comprising an epitope of the invention is added at 10 μg/ml to each well and HBV core 128-140 epitope is added at 1 μg/ml to each well as a source of T cell help during the first week of stimulation.

In the microculture format, 4×10⁵ PBMC are stimulated with peptide in 8 replicate cultures in 96-well round bottom plate in 100 μl/well of complete RPMI. On days 3 and 10, 100 μl of complete RPMI and 20 U/ml final concentration of rIL-2 are added to each well. On day 7 the cultures are transferred into a 96-well flat-bottom plate and restimulated with peptide, rIL-2 and 10⁵ irradiated (3,000 rad) autologous feeder cells. The cultures are tested for cytotoxic activity on day 14. A positive CTL response requires two or more of the eight replicate cultures to display greater than 10% specific ⁵¹Cr release, based on comparison with uninfected control subjects as previously described (Rehermann, et al., Nature Med. 2:1104, 1108, 1996; Rehermann et al., J. Clin. Invest. 97:1655-1665, 1996; and Rehermann et al. J. Clin. Invest. 98:1432-1440, 1996).

Target cell lines are autologous and allogeneic EBV-transformed B-LCL that are either purchased from the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI, Boston, Mass.) or established from the pool of patients as described (Guilhot, et al. J. Virol. 66:2670-2678, 1992).

Cytotoxicity assays are performed in the following manner. Target cells consist of either allogeneic HLA-matched or autologous EBV-transformed B lymphoblastoid cell line that are incubated overnight with the synthetic peptide epitope of the invention at 10 μM, and labeled with 100 μCi of ⁵¹Cr (Amersham Corp., Arlington Heights, Ill.) for 1 hour after which they are washed four times with HBSS.

Cytolytic activity is determined in a standard 4 hour, split-well ⁵¹Cr release assay using U-bottomed 96 well plates containing 3,000 targets/well. Stimulated PBMC are tested at effector/target (E/T) ratios of 20-50:1 on day 14. Percent cytotoxicity is determined from the formula: 100×[(experimental release-spontaneous release)/maximum release-spontaneous release)]. Maximum release is determined by lysis of targets by detergent (2% Triton X-100; Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.). Spontaneous release is <25% of maximum release for all experiments.

The results of such an analysis indicate the extent to which HLA-restricted CTL populations have been stimulated by previous exposure to the TAA or TAA vaccine.

The class II restricted HTL responses may also be analyzed. Purified PBMC are cultured in a 96-well flat bottom plate at a density of 1.5×10⁵ cells/well and are stimulated with 10 μg/ml synthetic peptide, whole antigen, or PHA. Cells are routinely plated in replicates of 4-6 wells for each condition. After seven days of culture, the medium is removed and replaced with fresh medium containing 10 U/ml IL-2. Two days later, 1 μCi ³H-thymidine is added to each well and incubation is continued for an additional 18 hours. Cellular DNA is then harvested on glass fiber mats and analyzed for ³H-thymidine incorporation. Antigen-specific T cell proliferation is calculated as the ratio of ³H-thymidine incorporation in the presence of antigen divided by the ³H-thymidine incorporation in the absence of antigen.

Example 18 Induction of Specific CTL Response in Humans

A human clinical trial for an immunogenic composition comprising CTL and HTL epitopes of the invention is set up as an IND Phase I, dose escalation study. Such a trial is designed, for example, as follows:

A total of about 27 male subjects are enrolled and divided into 3 groups:

Group I: 3 subjects are injected with placebo and 6 subjects are injected with 5 μg of peptide composition;

Group II: 3 subjects are injected with placebo and 6 subjects are injected with 50 μg peptide composition;

Group III: 3 subjects are injected with placebo and 6 subjects are injected with 500 μg of peptide composition.

After 4 weeks following the first injection, all subjects receive a booster inoculation at the same dosage. Additional booster inoculations can be administered on the same schedule.

The endpoints measured in this study relate to the safety and tolerability of the peptide composition as well as its immunogenicity. Cellular immune responses to the peptide composition are an index of the intrinsic activity of the peptide composition, and can therefore be viewed as a measure of biological efficacy. The following summarize the clinical and laboratory data that relate to safety and efficacy endpoints.

Safety: The incidence of adverse events is monitored in the placebo and drug treatment group and assessed in terms of degree and reversibility.

Evaluation of Vaccine Efficacy: For evaluation of vaccine efficacy, subjects are bled before and after injection. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells are isolated from fresh heparinized blood by Ficoll-Hypaque density gradient centrifugation, aliquoted in freezing media and stored frozen. Samples are assayed for CTL and HTL activity.

The vaccine is found to be both safe and efficacious.

Example 19 Therapeutic Use in Cancer Patients

Evaluation of vaccine compositions are performed to validate the efficacy of the CTL-HTL peptide compositions in cancer patients. The main objectives of the trials are to determine an effective dose and regimen for inducing CTLs in prostate cancer patients, to establish the safety of inducing a CTL and HTL response in these patients, and to see to what extent activation of CTLs improves the clinical picture of cancer patients, as manifested by a reduction in tumor cell numbers. Such a study is designed, for example, as follows:

The studies are performed in multiple centers. The trial design is an open-label, uncontrolled, dose escalation protocol wherein the peptide composition is administered as a single dose followed six weeks later by a single booster shot of the same dose. The dosages are 50, 500 and 5,000 micrograms per injection. Drug-associated adverse effects (severity and reversibility) are recorded.

There are three patient groupings. The first group is injected with 50 micrograms of the peptide composition and the second and third groups with 500 and 5,000 micrograms of peptide composition, respectively. The patients within each group are males, typically above the age of 50, and represent diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Example 20 Induction of CTL Responses Using a Prime Boost Protocol

A prime boost protocol similar in its underlying principle to that used to evaluate the efficacy of a DNA vaccine in transgenic mice, such as described in Example 12, can also be used for the administration of the vaccine to humans. Such a vaccine regimen can include an initial administration of, for example, naked DNA followed by a boost using recombinant virus encoding the vaccine, or recombinant protein/polypeptide or a peptide mixture administered in an adjuvant.

For example, the initial immunization can be performed using an expression vector, such as one constructed in accordance with Example 11, in the form of naked nucleic acid administered IM (or SC or ID) in the amounts of 0.5-5 mg at multiple sites. The nucleic acid (0.1 to 1000 μg) can also be administered using a gene gun. Following an incubation period of 3-4 weeks, a booster dose is then administered. The booster can be recombinant fowlpox virus administered at a dose of 5- to 5×10⁹ pfu. An alternative recombinant virus, such as an MVA, canarypox, adenovirus, or adeno-associated virus, can also be used for the booster, or the polyepitopic protein or a mixture of the peptides can be administered. For evaluation of vaccine efficacy, patient blood samples will be obtained before immunization as well as at intervals following administration of the initial vaccine and booster doses of the vaccine. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells are isolated from fresh heparinized blood by Ficoll-Hypaque density gradient centrifugation, aliquoted in freezing media and stored frozen. Samples are assayed for CTL and HTL activity.

Analysis of the results will indicate that a magnitude of response sufficient to achieve protective immunity against prostate cancer is generated.

Example 21 Administration of Vaccine Compositions Using Antigen Presenting Cells

Vaccines comprising peptide epitopes of the invention may be administered using antigen-presenting cells (APCs), or “professional” APCs such as dendritic cells (DC). In this example, the peptide-pulsed DC are administered to a patient to stimulate a CTL response in vivo. In this method, dendritic cells are isolated, expanded, and pulsed with a vaccine comprising peptide CTL and HTL epitopes of the invention. The dendritic cells are infused back into the patient to elicit CTL and HTL responses in vivo. The induced CTL and HTL then destroy (CTL) or facilitate destruction (HTL) of the specific target tumor cells that bear the proteins from which the epitopes in the vaccine are derived.

For example, a cocktail of epitope-bearing peptides is administered ex vivo to PBMC, or isolated DC therefrom, from the patient's blood. A pharmaceutical to facilitate harvesting of DC can be used, such as Progenipoietin™ (Monsanto, St. Louis, Mo.) or GM-CSF/IL-4. After pulsing the DC with peptides and prior to reinfusion into patients, the DC are washed to remove unbound peptides.

As appreciated clinically, and readily determined by one of skill based on clinical outcomes, the number of dendritic cells reinfused into the patient can vary (see, e.g., Nature Med. 4:328, 1998; Nature Med. 2:52, 1996 and Prostate 32:272, 1997). Although 2-50×10⁶ dendritic cells per patient are typically administered, larger number of dendritic cells, such as 10⁷ or 10⁸ can also be provided. Such cell populations typically contain between 50-90% dendritic cells.

In some embodiments, peptide-loaded PBMC are injected into patients without purification of the DC. For example, PBMC containing DC generated after treatment with an agent such as Progenipoietin™ are injected into patients without purification of the DC. The total number of PBMC that are administered often ranges from 10⁸ to 10¹⁰. Generally, the cell doses injected into patients is based on the percentage of DC in the blood of each patient, as determined, for example, by immunofluorescence analysis with specific anti-DC antibodies. Thus, for example, if Progenipoietin™ mobilizes 2% DC in the peripheral blood of a given patient, and that patient is to receive 5×10⁶ DC, then the patient will be injected with a total of 2.5×10⁸ peptide-loaded PBMC. The percent DC mobilized by an agent such as Progenipoietin™ is typically estimated to be between 2-10%, but can vary as appreciated by one of skill in the art.

The ability of DC to stimulate immune responses was evaluated in both in vitro and in vivo immune function assays. These assays include the stimulation of CTL hybridomas and CTL cell lines, and the in vivo activation of CTL.

DC Purification

Progenipoietin™-mobilized DC were purified from peripheral blood (PB) and spleens of Progenipoietin™-treated C57B1/6 mice to evaluate their ability to present antigen and to elicit cellular immune responses. Briefly, DC were purified from total WBC and spleen using a positive selection strategy employing magnetic beads coated with a CD11c specific antibody (Miltenyi Biotec, Auburn Calif.). For comparison, ex vivo expanded DC were generated by culturing bone marrow cells from untreated C57B1/6 mice with the standard cocktail of GM-CSF and IL-4 (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, Minn.) for a period of 7-8 days (Mayordomo et al., Nature Med. 1: 1297-1302 (1995)). Recent studies have revealed that this ex vivo expanded DC population contains effective antigen presenting cells, with the capacity to stimulate anti-tumor immune responses (Celluzzi et al., J. Exp. Med. 83:283-287 (1996)).

The purities of Progenipoietin™-derived DC (100 μg/day, 10 days, SC) and GM-CSF/IL-4 ex vivo expanded DC were determined by flow cytometry. DC populations were defined as cells expressing both CD11c and MHC Class II molecules. Following purification of DC from magnetic CD11c microbeads, the percentage of double positive PB-derived DC, isolated from Progenipoietin™-treated mice, was enriched from approximately 4% to a range from 48-57% (average yield=4.5×10⁶ DC/animal). The percentage of purified splenic DC isolated from Progenipoietin™ treated mice was enriched from a range of 12-17% to a range of 67-77%. The purity of GM-CSF/IL-4 ex vivo expanded DC ranged from 31-41% (Wong et al., J. Immunother., 21:32040 (1998)).

In Vitro Stimulation of CTL Hybridomas and CTL Cell Lines: Presentation of Specific CTL Epitopes

The ability of Progenipoietin™ generated DC to stimulate a CTL cell line was demonstrated in vitro using a viral-derived epitope and a corresponding epitope responsive CTL cell line. Transgenic mice expressing human HLA-A2.1 were treated with Progenipoietin™. Splenic DC isolated from these mice were pulsed with a peptide epitope derived from hepatitis B virus (HBV Pol 455) and then incubated with a CTL cell line that responds to the HBV Pol 455 epitope/HLA-A2.1 complex by producing IFNγ. The capacity of Progenipoietin™-derived splenic DC to present the HBV Pol 455 epitope was greater than that of two positive control populations: GM-CSF and IL-4 expanded DC cultures, or purified splenic B cells. A left shift in the response curve for Progenipoietin™-derived spleen cells versus the other antigen presenting cells revealed that these Progenipoietin™-derived cells required less epitope to stimulate maximal IFNγ release by the responder cell line.

The ability of ex vivo peptide-pulsed DC to stimulate CTL responses in vivo was also evaluated using the HLA-A2.1 transgenic mouse model. DC derived from Progenipoietin™-treated animals or control DC derived from bone marrow cells after expansion with GM-CSF and IL-4 were pulsed ex vivo with the HBV Pol 455 CTL epitope, washed and injected (IV) into such mice. At seven days post immunization, spleens were removed and splenocytes containing DC and CTL were restimulated twice in vitro in the presence of the HBV Pol 455 peptide. The CTL activity of three independent cultures of restimulated spleen cell cultures was assessed by measuring the ability of the CTL to lyse ⁵¹Cr-labeled target cells pulsed with or without peptide. Vigorous CTL responses were generated in animals immunized with the epitope-pulsed Progenipoietin™-derived DC as well as epitope-pulsed GM-CSF/IL-4 DC. In contrast, animals that were immunized with mock-pulsed Progenipoietin™-generated DC (no peptide) exhibited no evidence of CTL induction.

These data confirm that DC derived from Progenipoietin™ treated mice can be pulsed ex vivo with epitope and used to induce specific CTL responses in vivo. Thus, these data support the principle that Progenipoietin™-derived DC promote CTL responses in a model that manifests human MHC Class I molecules.

In vivo pharmacology studies in mice have demonstrated no apparent toxicity of reinfusion of pulsed autologous DC into animals.

Ex Vivo Activation of CTL/HTL Responses

Alternatively, ex vivo CTL or HTL responses to a particular tumor-associated antigen can be induced by incubating in tissue culture the patient's, or genetically compatible, CTL or HTL precursor cells together with a source of antigen-presenting cells (APC), such as dendritic cells, and the appropriate immunogenic peptides. After an appropriate incubation time (typically about 7-28 days), in which the precursor cells are activated and expanded into effector cells, the cells are infused back into the patient, where they will destroy (CTL) or facilitate destruction (HTL) of their specific target cells, i.e., tumor cells.

Example 22 Alternative Method of Identifying Motif-Bearing Peptides

Another way of identifying motif-bearing peptides is to elute them from cells bearing defined MHC molecules. For example, EBV transformed B cell lines used for tissue typing, have been extensively characterized to determine which HLA molecules they express. In certain cases these cells express only a single type of HLA molecule. These cells can then be infected with a pathogenic organism or transfected with nucleic acids that express the tumor antigen of interest. Thereafter, peptides produced by endogenous antigen processing of peptides produced consequent to infection (or as a result of transfection) will bind to HLA molecules within the cell and be transported and displayed on the cell surface.

The peptides are then eluted from the HLA molecules by exposure to mild acid conditions and their amino acid sequence determined, e.g., by mass spectral analysis (e.g., Kubo et al., J. Immunol. 152:3913, 1994). Because, as disclosed herein, the majority of peptides that bind a particular HLA molecule are motif-bearing, this is an alternative modality for obtaining the motif-bearing peptides correlated with the particular HLA molecule expressed on the cell.

Alternatively, cell lines that do not express any endogenous HLA molecules can be transfected with an expression construct encoding a single HLA allele. These cells may then be used as described, i.e., they may be infected with a pathogenic organism or transfected with nucleic acid encoding an antigen of interest to isolate peptides corresponding to the pathogen or antigen of interest that have been presented on the cell surface. Peptides obtained from such an analysis will bear motif(s) that correspond to binding to the single HLA allele that is expressed in the cell.

As appreciated by one in the art, one can perform a similar analysis on a cell bearing more than one HLA allele and subsequently determine peptides specific for each HLA allele expressed. Moreover, one of skill would also recognize that means other than infection or transfection, such as loading with a protein antigen, can be used to provide a source of antigen to the cell.

The above examples are provided to illustrate the invention but not to limit its scope. For example, the human terminology for the Major Histocompatibility Complex, namely HLA, is used throughout this document. It is to be appreciated that these principles can be extended to other species as well. Thus, other variants of the invention will be readily apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art and are encompassed by the appended claims. All publications, patents, and patent application cited herein are hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes. TABLE I POSITION POSITION POSITION C Terminus 2 (Primary Anchor) 3 (Primary Anchor) (Primary Anchor) SUPERMOTIFS A1 T, I, L, V, M, S F, W, Y A2 L, I, V, M, A, T, Q I, V, M, A, T, L A3 V, S, M, A, T, L, I R, K A24 Y, F, W, I, V, L, M, T F, I, Y, W, L, M B7 P V, I, L, F, M, W, Y, A B27 R, H, K F, Y, L, W, M, I, V, A B44 E, D F, W, L, I, M, V, A B58 A, T, S F, W, Y, L, I, V, M, A B62 Q, L, I, V, M, P F, W, Y, M, I, V, L, A MOTIFS A1 T, S, M Y A1 D, E, A, S Y A2.1 L, M, V, Q, I, A, T V, L, I, M, A, T A3 L, M, V, I, S, A, T, F, K, Y, R, H, F, A C, G, D A11 V, T, M, L, I, S, A, K, R, Y, H G, N, C, D, F A24 Y, F, W, M F, L, I, W A*3101 M, V, T, A, L, I, S R, K A*3301 M, V, A, L, F, I, S, T R, K A*6801 A, V, T, M, S, L, I R, K B*0702 P L, M, F, W, Y, A, I, V B*3501 P L, M, F, W, Y, I, V, A B51 P L, I, V, F, W, Y, A, M B*5301 P I, M, F, W, Y, A, L, V B*5401 P A, T, I, V, L, M, F, W, Y

Bolded residues are preferred, italicized residues are less preferred: A peptide is considered motif-bearing if it has primary anchors at each primary anchor position for a motif or supermotif as specified in the above table. TABLE Ia POSITION POSITION POSITION C Terminus 2 (Primary Anchor) 3 (Primary Anchor) (Primary Anchor) SUPERMOTIFS A1 T, I, L, V, M, S F, W, Y A2 V, Q, A, T I, V, L, M, A, T A3 V, S, M, A, T, L, I R, K A24 Y, F, W, I, V, L, M, T F, I, Y, W, L, M B7 P V, I, L, F, M, W, Y, A B27 R, H, K F, Y, L, W, M, I, V, A B58 A, T, S F, W, Y, L, I, V, M, A B62 Q, L, I, V, M, P F, W, Y, M, I, V, L, A MOTIFS A1 T, S, M Y A1 D, E, A, S Y A2.1 V, Q, A, T* V, L, I, M, A, T A3.2 L, M, V, I, S, A, T, F, K, Y, R, H, F, A C, G, D A11 V, T, M, L, I, S, A, K, R, H, Y G, N, C, D, F A24 Y, F, W F, L, I, W *If 2 is V, or Q, the C-term is not L

Bolded residues are preferred, italicized residues are less preferred: A peptide is considered motif-bearing if it has primary anchors at each primary anchor position for a motif or supermotif as specified in the above table. TABLE II POSITION

SUPERMOTIFS A1 1° Anchor T, I, L, V, M, S A2 1° Anchor L, I, V, M, A, T, Q A3 preferred 1° Anchor Y, F, W, (4/5) V, S, M, A, T, L, I deleterious D, E (3/5); P, (5/5) D, E, (4/5) A24 1° Anchor Y, F, W, I, V, L, M, T B7 preferred F, W, Y (5/5) 1° Anchor F, W, Y (4/5) L, I, V, M, (3/5) P deleterious D, E (3/5); P(5/5); D, E, (3/5) G(4/5); A(3/5); Q, N, (3/5) B27 1° Anchor R, H, K B44 1° Anchor E, D B58 1° Anchor A, T, S B62 1° Anchor Q, L, I, V, M, P MOTIFS A1 preferred G, F, Y, W, 1° Anchor D, E, A, Y, F, W, 9-mer S, T, M, deleterious D, E, R, H, K, L, I, V A, G, M, P, A1 preferred G, R, H, K A, S, T, C, L, I V, M, 1° Anchor G, S, T, C, 9-mer D, E, A, S deleterious A R, H, K, D, E, P, Y, F, W, D, E, P, Q, N, POSITION

C-terminus SUPERMOTIFS A1 1° Anchor F, W, Y A2 1° Anchor L, I, V, M, A, T A3 preferred Y, F, W, (3/5) Y, F, W, (4/5) P, (4/5) 1° Anchor R, K deleterious A24 1° Anchor F, I, Y, W, L, M B7 preferred F, W, Y, (3/5) 1° Anchor V, I, L, F, M, W, Y, A deleterious G, (4/5) Q, N, (4/5) D, E, (4/5) B27 1° Anchor F, Y, L, W, M, V, A B44 1° Anchor F, W, Y, L, I, M, V, A B58 1° Anchor F, W, Y, L, I, V, M, A B62 1° Anchor F, W, Y, M, I, V, L, A MOTIFS A1 9-mer preferred P, D, E, Q, N, Y, F, W, 1° Anchor Y deleterious A, A1 9-mer preferred A, S, T, C, L, I, V, M, D, E, 1° Anchor Y deleterious R, H, K, P, G, G, P, POSITION

A1 peferred Y, F, W, 1° Anchor D, E, A, Q, N, A, Y, F, W, Q, N, 10-mer S, T, M deleterious G, P, R, H, K, G, L, I V, M, D, E, R, H, K, A1 preferred Y, F, W, S, T, C, L, I, V 1° Anchor A, Y, F, W, 10-mer M, D, E, A, S deleterious R, H, K, R, H, K, D, E, P, P, Y, F, W, A2.1 preferred Y, F, W, 1° Anchor Y, F, W, S, T, C, Y, F, W, 9-mer L, M, I, V, Q, A, T deleterious D, E, P, D, E, R, K, H A2.1 preferred A, Y, F, W, 1° Anchor L, V, I, M, G, 10-mer L, M, I, V, Q, A, T deleterious D, E, P, D, E, R, K, H, A, P, A3 preferred R, H, K, 1° Anchor Y, F, W P, R, H, K, Y, F, W, A, L, M, V, I, S, A, T, F, C, G D deleterious D, E, P, D, E A11 preferred A, 1° Anchor Y, FW, Y, F, W, A, V, T, L, M, I, S, A, G, N, C, D, F deleterious D, E, P, A24 preferred Y, F, W, R, H, K, 1° Anchor S, T, C 9-mer Y, F, W, M deleterious D, E, G, D, E, G, Q, N, P, A24 preferred 1° Anchor P, Y, F, W, P, 10-mer Y, F, W, M deleterious G, D, E Q, N R, H, K A3101 preferred R, H, K, 1° Anchor Y, F, W, P, M, V, T, A, L, I, S deleterious D, E, P, D, E, A, D, E, A3301 preferred 1° Anchor Y, F, W M, V, A, L, F, I, S, T deleterious G, P D, E A6801 preferred Y, F, W, S, T, C, 1° Anchor Y, F, W, L, I, A, V, T, M, S, L, I V, M deleterious G, P, D, E, G, R, H, K, B0702 preferred R, H, K, F, W, Y, 1° Anchor R, H, K, R, H, K, P deleterious D, E, Q, N, P, D, E, P, D, E, D, E, B3501 preferred F, W, Y, L, I, V, M, 1° Anchor F, W, Y, P deleterious A, G, P, G, B51 preferred L, I, V, M, F, W, Y, 1° Anchor F, W, Y, S, T, C, F, W, Y, P deleterious A, G, P, D, E, R, H, K, D, E, S, T, C, B5301 preferred L, I, V, M, F, W, Y, 1° Anchor F, W, Y, S, T, C, F, W, Y, P deleterious A, G, P, Q, N, B5401 preferred F, W, Y, 1° Anchor F, W, Y, L, I, V L, I, V, M, P M, deleterious G, P, Q, N, D, E, G, D, E, S, T, C, R, H, K, D, E, POSITION

or

C-terminus C-terminus A1 peferred P, A, S, T, C, G, D, E, P, 1° Anchor 10-mer Y deleterious Q, N, A R, H, K, Y, F, W, R, H, K, A A1 preferred P, G, G, Y, F, W, 1° Anchor 10-mer Y deleterious G, P, R, H, K, Q, N, A2.1 preferred A, P 1° Anchor 9-mer V, L, I, M, A, T deleterious R, K, H D, E, R, K, H A2.1 preferred G, F, Y, W, L, 1° Anchor 10-mer V, I, M, V, L, I, M, A, T deleterious R, K, H, D, E, R, K, R, K, H, H, A3 preferred Y, F, W, P, 1° Anchor K, Y, R, H, F, A deleterious A11 preferred Y, F, W, Y, F, W, P, 1° Anchor K,, RY, H deleterious A G, A24 preferred Y, F, W, Y, F, W, 1° Anchor 9-mer F, L, I, W deleterious D, E, R, H, K, G, A, Q, N, A24 preferred P, 1° Anchor 10-mer F, L, I, W deleterious D, E A Q, N, D, E, A, A3101 preferred Y, F, W, Y, F, W, A, P, 1° Anchor R, K deleterious D, E, D, E, D, E, A3301 preferred A, Y, F, W 1° Anchor R, K deleterious A6801 preferred Y, F, W, P, 1° Anchor R, K deleterious A, B0702 preferred R, H, K, R, H, K, P, A, 1° Anchor L, M, F, W, Y, A, I, V deleterious G, D, E, Q, N, D, E, B3501 preferred F, W, Y, 1° Anchor L, M, F, W, Y, I, V, A deleterious G, B51 preferred G, F, W, Y, 1° Anchor L, I, V, F, W, Y, A, M deleterious G, D, E, Q, N, G, D, E, B5301 preferred L, I, V, M, F, F, W, Y, 1° Anchor W, Y, I, M, F, W, Y, A, L, V deleterious G, R, H, K, Q, N, D, E, B5401 preferred A, L, I, V, M, F, W, Y, A, P, 1° Anchor A, T, I, V, L, M, F, W, Y deleterious D, E, Q, N, D, G, E, D, E, Italicized residues indicate less preferred or “tolerated” residues. The information in Table II is specific for 9-mers unless otherwise specified.

Secondary anchor specificities are designated for each position independently. TABLE III POSITION MOTIFS

DR4 preferred F, M, Y, M, T, I, L, I, V, W, deleterious W, DR1 preferred M, F, P, A, M, Q, L, I, V, W, Y, deleterious C C, H F, D C, W, D DR7 preferred M, F, M, W, A, L, I, V, W, Y, deleterious C, G, DR Supermotif M, F, L, I, V, W, Y, POSITION MOTIFS

DR4 preferred V, S, T, M, H, M, H C, P, A, L, I, M, deleterious R, W, D, E DR1 preferred V, M, A, T, M, A, V, M S, P, L, I, C, deleterious G, D, E, D DR7 preferred I, V, M, S, A, M, I, V C, T, P, L, deleterious G, R, D, N G DR Supermotif V, M, S, T, A, C, P, L, I, POSITION DR3 MOTIFS

motif a L, I, V, M, D preferred F, Y, motif b L, I, V, M, D, N, Q, K, R, H preferred F, A, Y, E, S, T

Italicized residues indicate less preferred or “tolerated” residues. Secondary anchor specificities are designated for each position independently. TABLE IV HLA Class I Standard Peptide Binding Affinity. STANDARD STANDARD SEQUENCE BINDING AFFINITY ALLELE PEPTIDE (SEQ ID NO:) (nM) A*0101 944.02 YLEPAIAKY 25 A*0201 941.01 FLPSDYFPSV 5.0 A*0202 941.01 FLPSDYFPSV 4.3 A*0203 941.01 FLPSDYFPSV 10 A*0205 941.01 FLPSDYFPSV 4.3 A*0206 941.01 FLPSDYFPSV 3.7 A*0207 941.01 FLPSDYFPSV 23 A*6802 1072.34 YVIKVSARV 8.0 A*0301 941.12 KVFPYALINK 11 A*1101 940.06 AVDLYHFLK 6.0 A*3101 941.12 KVFPYALINK 18 A*3301 1083.02 STLPETYVVRR 29 A*6801 941.12 KVFPYALINK 8.0 A*2402 979.02 AYIDNYNKF 12 B*0702 1075.23 APRTLVYLL 5.5 B*3501 1021.05 FPFKYAAAF 7.2 B51 1021.05 FPFKYAAAF 5.5 B*5301 1021.05 FPFKYAAAF 9.3 B*5401 1021.05 FPFKYAAAF 10

TABLE V HLA Class II Standard Peptide Binding Affinity. Binding Affinity Allele Nomenclature Standard Peptide Sequence (SEQ ID NO:) (nM) DRB1*0101 DR1 515.01 PKYVKQNTLKLAT 5.0 DRB1*0301 DR3 829.02 YKTIAFDEEARR 300 DRB1*0401 DR4w4 515.01 PKYVKQNTLKLAT 45 DRB1*0404 DR4w14 717.01 YARFQSQTTLKQKT 50 DRB1*0405 DR4w15 717.01 YARFQSQTTLKQKT 38 DRB1*0701 DR7 553.01 QYIKANSKFIGITE 25 DRB1*0802 DR8w2 553.01 QYIKANSKFIGITE 49 DRB1*0803 DR8w3 553.01 QYIKANSKFIGITE 1600 DRB1*0901 DR9 553.01 QYIKANSKFIGITE 75 DRB1*1101 DR5w11 553.01 QYIKANSKFIGITE 20 DRB1*1201 DR5w12 1200.05 EALIHQLKINPYVLS 298 DRB1*1302 DR6w19 650.22 QYIKANAKFIGITE 3.5 DRB1*1501 DR2w2β1 507.02 GRTQDENPVVHFFKNIVTPRTPPP 9.1 DRB3*0101 DR52a 511 NGQIGNDPNRDIL 470 DRB4*0101 DRw53 717.01 YARFQSQTTLKQKT 58 DRB5*0101 DR2w2β2 553.01 QYIKANSKFIGITE 20

TABLE VI Allelle-specific HLA-supertype members HLA-supertype Verified^(a) Predicted^(b) A1 A*0101, A*2501, A*2601, A*2602, A*3201 A*0102, A*2604, A*3601, A*4301, A*8001 A2 A*0201, A*0202, A*0203, A*0204, A*0205, A*0206, A*0207, A*0208, A*0210, A*0211, A*0212, A*0213 A*0209, A*0214, A*6802, A*6901 A3 A*0301, A*1101, A*3101, A*3301, A*6801 A*0302, A*1102, A*2603, A*3302, A*3303, A*3401, A*3402, A*6601, A*6602, A*7401 A24 A*2301, A*2402, A*3001 A*2403, A*2404, A*3002, A*3003 B7 B*0702, B*0703, B*0704, B*0705, B*1508, B*3501, B*3502, B*3503, B*1511, B*4201, B*5901 B*3503, B*3504, B*3505, B*3506, B*3507, B*3508, B*5101, B*5102, B*5103, B*5104, B*5105, B*5301, B*5401, B*5501, B*5502, B*5601, B*5602, B*6701, B*7801 B27 B*1401, B*1402, B*1509, B*2702, B*2703, B*2704, B*2705, B*2706, B*2701, B*2707, B*2708, B*3802, B*3903, B*3904, B*3801, B*3901, B*3902, B*7301 B*3905, B*4801, B*4802, B*1510, B*1518, B*1503 B44 B*1801, B*1802, B*3701, B*4402, B*4403, B*4404, B*4001, B*4002, B*4101, B*4501, B*4701, B*4901, B*5001 B*4006 B58 B*5701, B*5702, B*5801, B*5802, B*1516, B*1517 B62 B*1501, B*1502, B*1513, B*5201 B*1301, B*1302, B*1504, B*1505, B*1506, B*1507, B*1515, B*1520, B*1521, B*1512, B*1514, B*1510 ^(a)Verified alleles include alleles whose specificity has been determined by pool sequencing analysis, peptide binding assays, or by analysis of the sequences of CTL epitopes. ^(b)Predicted alleles are alleles whose specificity is predicted on the basis of B and F pocket structure to overlap with the supertype specificity.

TABLE VII Prostate A01 Supermotif Peptides with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids A*0101 No. PAP ALFPPEGVSIW 122 11 1 Kallikrein ALGTTCYASGW 147 11 2 PSA ALGTTCYASGW 143 11 3 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVY 235 9 4 PSA ALPERPSLY 231 9 0.0110 5 PSM ALVLAGGF 25 8 6 PSM ALVLAGGFF 25 9 7 PAP AMTNLAALF 116 9 8 PAP ASCHLTELY 311 9 0.7700 9 PAP ASCHLTELYF 311 10 10 PSM ASGRARYTKNW 531 11 11 PSM ASKFSERLQDF 643 11 12 PAP ASLSLGFLF 12 9 13 PSM ASWDAEEF 419 8 14 PSM ATARRPRW 13 8 15 PSM AVATARRPRW 11 10 16 PSM AVVHEIVRSF 393 10 17 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHY 241 9 18 Kallikrein CLKKNSQVW 66 9 19 PSM CSGKIVIARY 196 10 0.0160 20 PAP CSPSCPLERF 347 10 21 PSM DIVPPFSAF 156 9 22 PAP DLFGIWSKVY 201 10 23 PSA DMSLLKNRF 98 9 24 PSM DSLFSAVKNF 630 10 25 PSM DSSIEGNY 453 8 26 PSM DSVELAHY 106 8 27 PAP DVYNGLLPPY 301 10 28 PSM EIFNTSLF 137 8 29 PSM ELAHYDVLLSY 109 11 30 PSM ELANSIVLPF 586 10 31 PAP ELGEYIRKRY 80 10 32 PSM ELKAENIKKF 64 10 33 PAP ELKFVTLVF 34 9 34 PSM ELKSPDEGF 480 9 35 PAP ELSELSLLSLY 237 11 36 PAP ELSLLSLY 240 8 37 PSM ELVEKFYDPMF 560 11 38 PAP ELVGPVIPQDW 358 11 39 PAP ELYFEKGEY 317 9 40 PAP ELYFEKGEYF 317 10 41 PSM EMKTYSVSF 621 9 42 PAP ESETLKSEEF 168 10 43 PSM ESFPGIYDALF 703 11 44 PSM ESKVDPSKAW 716 10 45 PAP ESSWPQGF 60 8 46 PAP ESVHNFTLPSW 216 11 47 PAP ESYKHEQVY 95 9 0.0980 48 PAP ETLKSEEF 170 8 49 PSM ETNKYSGY 542 8 50 PSM ETNKFSGYPLY 542 11 51 PSM ETYELVEKF 557 9 52 PSM ETYELVEKFY 557 10 0.0260 53 PSM EVKRQIYVAAF 727 11 54 PAP FLFLLFFW 18 8 55 PSM FLLGFLFGW 33 9 56 PSM FLLGFLFGWF 33 10 57 PSA FLTLSVTW 3 8 58 Kallikrein FMLCAGLW 195 8 59 PSA FMLCAGRW 191 8 60 PSM FSERLQDF 646 8 61 PSM FSGYPLYHSVY 546 11 62 PSM FTEIASKK 639 8 63 PSM GIASGRARY 529 9 0.0025 64 PAP GIWSKVYDPLY 204 11 65 PSM GLDSVELAHY 104 10 0.4800 66 PAP GLHGQDLF 196 8 67 PAP GLHGQDLFGIW 196 11 68 PSM GLLGSTEW 427 8 69 PSM GLPDRPFY 680 8 70 PAP GLQMALDVY 295 9 71 PAP GMEQHYELGEY 74 11 72 PSM GMPEGDLVY 168 9 0.0001 73 PSM GSAPPDSSW 311 9 74 PSM GSGNDFEVF 516 9 75 PSM GSGNDFEVFF 516 10 76 Kallikrein GSIEPEEF 158 8 77 PSA GSIEPEEF 154 8 78 PSM GTLKKEGW 403 8 79 Kallikrein GTTCYASGW 149 9 80 PSA GTTGYASGW 145 9 81 PSM GVILYSDPADY 224 11 82 PSM GVKSYPDGW 238 9 83 Kallikrein GVLQGITSW 221 9 84 PSA GVLQGITSW 217 9 85 Kallikrein GVLVHPQW 52 8 86 PSA GVLVHPQW 48 8 87 PAP GVSIWNPILLW 128 11 88 PSM HLAGTEQNF 82 9 89 PAP HMKRATQIPSY 270 11 90 Kallikrein HSFPHPLY 94 8 0.0260 91 PSA HSFPHPLY 90 8 0.0260 92 Kallikrein HSQPWQVAVY 34 10 93 PSM HSTNEVTRIY 347 10 0.0048 94 PSM IINEDGNEIF 130 10 95 PSM ILFASWDAEEF 416 11 96 PSM ILGGHRDSW 373 9 97 PSM ILGGHRDSWVF 373 11 98 PSA ILLGRHSLF 69 9 99 PSA ILSRIVGGW 17 9 100 PSM ILYSDPADY 226 9 101 PSM ILYSDPADYF 226 10 102 PSM ISKLGSGNDF 512 10 103 PSM ITPKHNMKAF 52 10 104 PSM IVIARYGKVF 200 10 105 PSM IVLPFDCRDY 591 10 106 PSM IVPPFSAF 157 8 107 PSM KIVIARYGKVF 199 11 108 PSM KLGSGNDF 514 8 109 PSM KLGSGNDFEVF 514 11 110 PAP KLSGLHGQDLF 193 11 111 PSM KTYSVSFDSLF 623 11 112 PSM KVDPSKAW 718 8 113 PSM KVPYNVGPGF 324 10 114 Kallikrein KVVHYRKW 245 8 115 PSA KVVHYRKW 241 8 116 PSA LILSRIVGGW 16 10 117 Kallikrein LIQSRIVGGW 20 10 118 PSM LLGFLFGW 34 8 119 PSM LLGFLFGWF 34 9 120 PSA LLGRHSLF 70 8 121 PSM LLQERGVAY 441 9 122 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARAY 178 11 123 PSM LMFLERAF 668 8 124 PAP LSEDQLLY 148 8 125 PAP LSEDQLLYLPF 148 11 126 PAP LSELSLLSLY 238 10 12.0000 127 PAP LSGLHGQDLF 194 10 128 PAP LSLGFLFLLF 14 10 129 PAP LSLGFLFLLFF 14 11 130 Kallikrein LSNDMCARAY 179 10 131 PSA LSRIVGGW 18 8 132 PSM LSYPNKTHPNY 117 11 133 PAP LTELYFEKGEY 315 11 134 PSM LTPGYPANEY 268 10 0.0082 135 PAP LTQLGMEQHY 70 10 0.6200 136 PSM LVEKFYDPMF 561 10 137 PAP LVGPVIPQDW 359 10 138 PSM LVLAGGFF 26 8 139 PSM MMNDQLMF 663 8 140 PAP MSAMTNLAALF 114 11 141 PSA MSLLKNRF 99 8 142 PAP MTNLAALF 117 8 143 PSM NIKKFLYNF 69 9 144 PSM NITPKHNMKAF 51 11 145 PSM NVGPGFTGNF 328 10 146 PSM NVSDIVPPF 153 9 147 PAP PIKESSWPQGF 57 11 148 PSM PLGLPDRPF 678 9 149 PSM PLGLPDRPFY 678 10 150 PSA PLILSRIVGGW 15 11 151 Kallikrein PLIQSRIVGGW 19 11 152 PAP PLSEDQLLY 147 9 1.2000 153 PSM PLTPGYPANEY 267 11 154 PAP PLYCESVHNF 212 10 155 PSM PLYHSVYETY 550 10 156 PAP PSCPLERF 349 8 157 PSM PSIPVHPIGY 290 10 158 PSM PSIPVHPIGYY 290 11 159 PSA PSLYTKVVHY 236 10 0.0010 160 PAP PSYKKLIMY 278 9 0.0031 161 PAP PTDPIKESSW 54 10 162 PSM PVHPIGYY 293 8 163 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPLY 91 11 164 PAP QIPSYKKLIMY 276 11 165 PSM QIQSQWKEF 95 9 166 PSM QLAGAKGVILY 218 11 167 PSM QLAKQIQSQW 91 10 168 PAP QLGMEQHY 72 8 169 PSM QLMFLERAF 667 9 170 PAP QLTQLGMEQHY 69 11 171 Kallikrein QSRIVGGW 22 8 172 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGW 39 9 173 PSA QVFQVSHSF 84 9 174 PSA QVHPQKVTKF 182 10 175 PSM QVRGGMVF 578 8 176 PSA QVSHSFPHPLY 87 11 177 Kallikrein QVWLGRHNLF 72 10 178 PSM RISKLGSGNDF 511 11 179 PSM RLGIASGRARY 527 11 180 PAP RLHPYKDF 180 8 181 PSM RLLQERGVAY 440 10 182 PSM RMMNDQLMF 662 9 183 PSM RSFGTLKKEGW 400 11 184 PAP RSVLAKELKF 28 10 185 PSM RTILFASW 414 8 186 PSM RVDCTPLMY 463 9 11.0000 187 Kallikrein RVPVSHSF 89 8 188 PSM SIINEDGNEIF 129 11 189 PSM SIPVHPIGY 291 9 190 PSM SIPVHPIGYY 291 10 191 PSM SIVLPFDGRDY 590 11 192 PAP SIWNPILLW 130 9 193 PSM SLFEPPPPGY 142 10 194 PSM SLFSAVKNF 631 9 195 PAP SLGFLFLLF 15 9 196 PAP SLGFLFLLFF 15 10 197 PAP SLGFLFLLFFW 15 11 198 PAP SLSLGFLF 13 8 199 PAP SLSLGFLFLLF 13 11 200 PSA SLYTKVVHY 237 9 0.0017 201 PSM SMKHPQEMKTY 615 11 202 PSM SSHNKYAGESF 695 11 203 PSM SSWRGSLKVPY 317 11 204 PSM STNEVTRIY 348 9 0.0430 205 PAP SVHNFTLPSW 217 10 206 PSA SVILLGRHSLF 67 11 207 PAP SVLAKELKF 29 9 208 PSM SVSFDSLF 626 8 209 PSM TLRGAVEPDRY 361 11 210 PSM TLRVDCTPLMY 461 11 211 PSM TSLFEPPPPGY 141 11 212 Kallikrein TTCYASGW 150 8 213 PSA TTCYASGW 146 8 214 PSM TVAQVRGGMVF 575 11 215 PAP TVPLSEDQLLY 145 11 216 PSM VIARYGKVF 201 9 217 PSM VILGGHRDSW 372 10 218 PSA VILLGRHSLF 68 10 219 PSM VILYSDPADY 225 10 220 PSM VILYSDPADYF 225 11 221 PSM VIYAPSSHNKY 690 11 222 PSM VLAGGFFLLGF 27 11 223 PAP VLAKELKF 30 8 224 PSM VLPFDCRDY 592 9 225 Kallikrein VLQGITSW 222 8 226 PSA VLQGITSW 218 8 227 PSM VLRKYADKIY 603 10 228 PSM VLRMMNDQLMF 660 11 229 PSM VSDIVPPF 154 8 230 PSM VSDIVPPFSAF 154 11 231 PAP VSGLQMALDVY 293 11 232 Kallikrein VSHSFPHPLY 92 10 0.1500 233 PSA VSHSFPHPLY 88 10 0.1500 234 PAP VSIWNPILLW 129 10 235 Kallikrein VTEFMLCAGLW 192 11 236 PSA VTKFMLCAGRW 188 11 237 PSA VVFLTLSVTW 1 10 238 PSM VVHEIVRSF 394 9 239 PSM VVLRKYADKIY 602 11 240 Kallikrein WLGRHNLF 74 8 241 PAP WSKVYDPLY 206 9 0.0046 242 PSM WTKKSPSPEF 497 10 243 PAP YIRKRYRKF 84 9 244 PAP YLPFRNCPRF 155 10 245 PSM YSDPADYF 228 8 246 Kallikrein YSEKVTEF 188 8 247 PSM YSVSFDSLF 625 9 248 PSM YTKNWETNKF 537 10 249 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRKW 243 10 250 PSA YTKVVHYRKW 239 10 251 PSM YVILGGHRDSW 371 11 252 PSM YVNYARTEDF 176 10 253 PSM YVNYARTEDFF 176 11 254

TABLE VIII Prostate A02 Supermotif Peptides with Binding Information No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 A*0206 A*6802 No. PSM AAAETLSEV 741 9 0.0002 255 PSM AAAETLSEVA 741 10 256 PSM AAETLSEV 742 8 257 PSM AAETLSEVA 742 9 258 PSM AAFTVQAA 735 8 259 PSM AAFTVQAAA 735 9 260 PSM AAFTVQAAAET 735 11 261 PSA AAHCIRNKSV 59 10 0.0002 262 PSA AAHCIRNKSVI 59 11 0.0010 0.0100 0.0140 0.0004 0.0018 263 Kallikrein AAHCLKKNSQV 63 11 0.0003 0.0006 0.0450 0.0001 0.0004 264 PAP AALFPPEGV 121 9 0.0002 265 PAP AALFPPEGVSI 121 11 266 PSA AAPLILSRI 13 9 0.0002 267 PSA AAPLILSRIV 13 10 0.0002 268 PAP AAPLLLARA 3 9 269 PAP AAPLLLARAA 3 10 270 PAP AASLSLGFL 11 9 0.0002 271 PAP AASLSLGFLFL 11 11 272 PSM AAVVHEIV 392 8 273 PAP ALDVYNGL 299 8 274 PAP ALDVYNGLL 299 9 0.0520 275 PSM ALFDIESKV 711 9 0.0590 6.0000 7.2000 0.0250 0.0009 276 PAP ALFPPEGV 122 8 277 PAP ALFPPEGVSI 122 10 0.0044 278 Kallikrein ALGTTCYA 147 8 0.0230 279 PSA ALGTTCYA 143 8 0.0230 280 Kallikrein ALPEKPAV 235 8 0.0009 0.0200 0.0510 0.0001 −0.0001 281 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVYT 235 10 0.0003 0.0050 0.0028 0.0005 −0.0001 282 PSA ALPERPSL 231 8 0.0002 283 PSA ALPERPSLYT 231 10 0.0008 284 Kallikrein ALSVGCTGA 9 9 0.0410 0.0038 0.1100 0.0066 −0.0001 285 Kallikrein ALSVGCTGAV 9 10 0.0180 0.2600 0.4000 0.0051 0.0012 286 PSM ALVLAGGFFL 25 10 0.0150 287 PSM ALVLAGGFFLL 25 11 288 PAP AMTNLAAL 116 8 289 PSM AQKLLEKM 302 8 290 PSM AQLAGAKGV 217 9 291 PSM AQLAGAKGVI 217 10 292 PSM AQLAGAKGVIL 217 11 293 PSA AQVHPQKV 181 8 294 PSA AQVHPQKVT 181 9 0.0002 295 PSM AQVRGGMV 577 8 296 PSM AQVRGGMVFEL 577 11 297 PSM ATARRPRWL 13 9 0.0002 298 PSM ATARRPRWLCA 13 11 299 PAP ATEDTMTKL 227 9 0.0002 300 PAP ATLGKLSGL 189 9 0.0005 301 PSM ATNITPKHNM 49 10 302 PAP ATQIPSYKKL 274 10 0.0002 303 PAP ATQIPSYKKLI 274 11 304 PSM AVATARRPRWL 11 11 305 PSA AVCGGVLV 44 8 0.0003 306 PSM AVEPDRYV 365 8 307 PSM AVEPDRYVI 365 9 0.0001 308 PSM AVEPDRYVIL 365 10 0.0002 309 PSM AVGLPSIPV 286 9 0.0042 310 PSM AVKNFTEI 635 8 311 PSM AVKNFTEIA 635 9 312 PSA AVKVMDLPT 131 9 0.0001 313 Kallikrein AVPLIQSRI 17 9 0.0001 0.0026 0.0013 0.0020 0.0610 314 Kallikrein AVPLIQSRIV 17 10 0.0014 0.0510 0.0490 0.0035 0.0058 315 PSM AVVLRKYA 601 8 316 PSM AVVLRKYADKI 601 11 317 Kallikrein AVYSHGWA 41 8 −0.0001 0.0005 0.0011 0.0004 0.0003 318 PSM CAGALVLA 22 8 319 Kallikrein CAGLWTGGKDT 198 11 0.0001 0.0003 0.0027 −0.0001 −0.0002 320 PSA CAGRWTGGKST 194 11 0.0013 0.0370 0.0250 0.0002 0.0081 321 Kallikrein CALPEKPA 234 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 322 Kallikrein CALPEKPAV 234 9 0.0002 0.0013 0.1100 0.0004 0.0001 323 Kallikrein CALPEKPAVYT 234 11 0.0008 0.0033 0.0120 0.1700 −0.0002 324 PSA CALPERPSL 230 9 0.0001 325 PSA CALPERPSLYT 230 11 0.0008 0.0130 0.0071 0.0016 0.0023 326 PSA CAQVHPQKV 180 9 0.0002 327 PSA CAQVHPQKVT 180 10 0.0001 328 Kallikrein CARAYSEKV 184 9 −0.0001 0.0006 0.0025 0.0002 0.0012 329 Kal1ikrein CARAYSEKVT 184 10 0.0074 0.0710 0.0200 0.0030 0.0071 330 PSA CIRNKSVI 62 8 0.0001 331 PSA CIRNKSVIL 62 9 0.0003 332 PSA CIRNKSVILL 62 10 0.0001 333 Kallikrein CLKKNSQV 66 8 0.0001 0.0006 0.0006 −0.0001 −0.0001 334 Kallikrein GLKKNSQVWL 66 10 0.0001 0.0220 0.0083 0.0002 −0.0001 335 PAP CMTTNSHQGT 372 10 0.0002 336 Kallikrein CTGAVPLI 14 8 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0012 0.0004 337 PSM CTPLMYSL 466 8 338 PSM CTPLMYSLV 466 9 0.0004 339 PSA CVDLHVISNDV 169 11 0.0001 340 Kallikrein CVSLHLLSNDM 173 11 0.0002 0.0031 0.0020 0.0009 0.0007 341 PSM DAEEFGLL 422 8 342 PSM DAEEFGLLGST 422 11 343 PSM DALFDIESKV 710 10 0.0004 344 PSM DAQKLLEKM 301 9 345 PSA DAVKVMDL 130 8 −0.0001 0.0003 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0001 346 PSA DAVKVMDLPT 130 10 0.0001 347 PSM DIESKVDPSKA 714 11 348 PSM DIVPPFSA 156 8 349 PAP DLFGIWSKV 201 9 0.0002 350 PSA DLHVISNDV 171 9 0.0003 351 PSA DLHVISNDVCA 171 11 0.0001 352 Kallikrein DLMLLRLSEPA 120 11 0.0022 353 PSA DLMLLRLSEPA 116 11 0.0022 354 PSA DLPTQEPA 136 8 0.0001 355 PSA DLPTQEPAL 136 9 0.0003 356 PSA DLPTQEPALGT 136 11 0.0041 0.0180 0.0100 0.0001 0.0009 357 Kallikrein DLVLSIAL 3 8 0.0001 −0.0002 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0006 358 Kallikrein DLVLSIALSV 3 10 0.0010 0.0180 0.0052 0.0230 0.0051 359 PSM DLVYVNYA 173 8 360 PSM DLVYVNYART 173 10 0.0004 361 Kallikrein DMCARAYSEKV 182 11 0.0001 0.0018 0.0130 0.0001 0.0170 362 PSM DMKINCSGKI 191 10 0.0001 363 PSM DMKINCSGKIV 191 11 364 PSA DMSLLKNRFL 98 10 0.0001 365 PSM DQLMFLERA 666 9 366 PSM DQLMFLERAFI 666 11 367 Kallikrein DTCGGDSGGPL 207 11 0.0001 −0.0001 0.0005 −0.0001 0.0005 368 PAP DTFPTDPI 51 8 369 Kallikrein DTGQRVPV 85 8 −0.0001 0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0002 370 PSA DTGQVFQV 81 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0016 371 PAP DTMTKLREL 230 9 0.0002 372 PAP DTTVSGLQM 290 9 373 PAP DTTVSGLQMA 290 10 374 PAP DTTVSGLQMAL 290 11 375 PSA DVCAQVHPQKV 178 11 0.0001 376 PAP DVDRTLMSA 108 9 377 PAP DVDRTLMSAM 108 10 378 PAP DVDRTLMSAMT 108 11 379 PSM DVLLSYPNKT 114 10 380 Kallikrein DVVKVLGL 134 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0024 381 Kallikrein DVVKVLGLPT 134 10 0.0012 0.0230 0.0460 0.0004 0.0017 382 PAP DVYNGLLPPYA 301 11 383 PSM EATNITPKHNM 48 11 384 PSM EAVGLPSI 285 8 385 PSM EAVGLPSIPV 285 10 0.0002 386 PSM EIASKFSERL 641 10 0.0001 387 PAP EILNHMKRA 266 9 388 PAP EILNHMKRAT 266 10 389 PSM EIVRSFGT 397 8 390 PSM EIVRSFGTL 397 9 0.0002 391 PSM ELAHYDVL 109 8 392 PSM ELAHYDVLL 109 9 0.0028 393 PSM ELANSIVL 586 8 394 PSM ELKAENIKKFL 64 11 395 PAP ELKFVTLV 34 8 396 PAP ELSELSLL 237 8 397 PAP ELSELSLLSL 237 10 0.0008 398 PAP ELSLLSLYGI 240 10 0.0002 399 PSA ELTDAVKV 127 8 0.0001 400 PSA ELTDAVKVM 127 9 0.0001 401 PSA ELTDAVKVMDL 127 11 0.0001 402 PSM ELVEKFYDPM 560 10 0.0001 403 PAP ELYFEKGEYFV 317 11 404 PAP EMYYRNET 328 8 405 PAP EQHYELGEYI 76 10 406 PSM EQNFQLAKQI 87 10 407 PAP EQVYIRST 100 8 408 PAP EQVYIRSTDV 100 10 409 PSM ETDSAVAT 7 8 410 PSM ETDSAVATA 7 9 411 PSM ETNKFSGYPL 542 10 0.0002 412 PAP ETQHEPYPL 334 9 0.0002 413 PAP ETQHEPYPLM 334 10 414 PAP ETQHEPYPLML 334 11 415 PSM EVFFQRLG 522 9 0.0002 416 PSM EVFFQRLGIA 522 10 417 PSM EVKRQIYV 727 8 418 PSM EVKRQIYVA 727 9 419 PSM EVKRQIYVAA 727 10 420 PSM EVTRIYNV 351 8 421 PSM EVTRIYNVI 351 9 0.0002 422 PSM EVTRIYNVIGT 351 11 423 PAP FAELVGPV 356 8 424 PAP FAELVGPVI 356 9 0.0002 425 PSM FASWDAEEFGL 418 11 426 PAP FIATLGKL 187 8 427 PAP FIATLGKLSGL 187 11 428 PSM FIKSSNEA 42 8 429 PSM FIKSSNEAT 42 9 430 PSM FIKSSNEATNI 42 11 431 PSM FLDELKAENI 61 10 0.0160 432 PSM FLERAFIDPL 670 10 0.0014 433 PAP FLFLLFFWL 18 9 0.0011 434 PAP FLLFFWLDRSV 20 11 435 PSM FLLGFLFGWFI 33 11 436 PAP FLNESYKHEQV 92 11 437 Kallikrein FLRPRSLQCV 165 10 0.0410 0.0940 1.1000 0.0068 0.0036 438 PSA FLTLSVTWI 3 9 0.0150 439 PSA FLTLSVTWIGA 3 11 0.0160 440 PSA FLTPKKLQCV 161 10 0.0310 441 PSM FLYNFTQI 73 8 442 PSM FLYNFTQIPHL 73 11 443 Kallkrein FMLCAGLWT 195 9 0.0220 0.0019 0.0160 0.0170 0.0006 444 PSA FMLGAGRWT 191 9 0.0059 445 PAP FQELESET 164 8 446 PAP FQELESETL 164 9 447 PSM FQRLGIASGRA 525 11 448 PSA FQVSHSFPHPL 86 11 449 PSM FTGNFSTQKV 333 10 0.0001 450 PAP FTLPSWAT 221 8 451 PAP FTLPSWATEDT 221 11 452 PSM FTQIPHLA 77 8 453 PSM FTQIPHLAGT 77 10 454 PSM FTVQAAAET 737 9 455 PSM FTVQAAAETL 737 10 0.0001 456 PAP FVEMYYRNET 326 10 457 PSA GAAPLILSRI 12 10 0.0005 458 PSA GAAPLILSRIV 12 11 0.1700 0.0220 0.0110 0.0006 0.0017 459 PSM GAAVVHEI 391 8 460 PSM GAAVVHEIV 391 9 0.0002 461 PSM GALVLAGGFFL 24 11 462 PSM GAVEPDRYV 364 9 0.0001 463 PSM GAVEPDRYVI 364 10 0.0002 464 PSM GAVEPDRYVIL 364 11 465 Kallikrein GAVPLIQSRI 16 10 0.0017 0.0520 0.0380 0.0041 0.0057 466 Kallikrein GAVPLIQSRIV 16 11 0.0001 0.0004 0.0004 0.0003 0.0003 467 PSM GIAEAVGL 282 8 468 PSM GIAEAVGLPSI 282 11 469 PSM GIASGRARYT 529 10 470 PSM GIDPQSGA 385 8 471 PSM GIDPQSGAA 385 9 472 PSM GIDPQSGAAV 385 10 0.0002 473 PSM GIDPQSGAAVV 385 11 474 PAP GIHKQKEKSRL 248 11 475 Kallikrein GITSWGPEPCA 225 11 0.0009 0.0014 0.0230 0.0001 0.0004 476 PSA GITSWGSEPCA 221 11 0.0001 477 PAP GIWSKVYDPL 204 10 0.0002 478 PSM GIYDALFDI 707 9 0.0210 479 PSM GLDSVELA 104 8 480 PAP GLHGQDLFGI 196 10 0.0340 481 PSM GLLGSTEWA 427 9 0.0079 482 PAP GLLPPYASCHL 305 11 483 PSM GLPDRPFYRHV 680 11 484 PSM GLPSIPVHPI 288 10 0.0340 1.6000 4.7000 0.0015 0.0260 485 Kallikrein GLPTQEPA 140 8 −0.0001 0.0003 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 486 Kallikrein GLPTQEPAL 140 9 0.0002 0.0092 0.0013 0.0007 −0.0002 487 Kallikrein GLPTQEPALGT 140 11 0.0003 0.0200 0.0450 0.0006 0.0020 488 PAP GLQMALDV 295 8 489 Kallikrein GLWTGGKDT 200 9 0.0002 0.0007 0.0015 −0.0001 −0.0002 490 PAP GMEQHYEL 74 8 491 PSM GMPEGDLV 168 8 492 PSM GMPEGDLVYV 168 10 0.0910 1.4000 1.4000 0.0230 0.0013 493 PSM GMPRISKL 508 8 494 PSM GMVFELANSI 582 10 0.0024 495 PSM GMVFELANSIV 582 11 496 PAP GQDLFGIWSKV 199 11 497 PAP GQLTQLGM 68 8 498 PSM GTEQNFQL 85 8 499 PSM GTEQNFQLA 85 9 500 PSM GVAYINADSSI 446 11 501 PSM GVILYSDPA 224 9 502 PSM GVKSYPDGWNL 238 11 503 Kallikrein GVLVHPQWV 52 9 0.0003 504 PSA GVLVHPQWV 48 9 0.0003 505 Kallikrein GVLVHPQWVL 52 10 0.0004 506 PSA GVLVHPQWVL 48 10 0.0004 507 Kallikrein GVLVHPQWVLT 52 11 0.0002 0.0005 0.0005 0.0014 −0.0001 508 PSA GVLVHPQWVLT 48 11 0.0002 0.0005 0.0005 0.0014 −0.0001 509 PAP GVLVNEIL 261 8 510 PAP GVLVNEILNHM 261 11 511 PSM GVQRGNIL 252 8 512 PSM GVQRGNILNL 252 10 0.0001 513 PAP GVSIWNPI 128 8 514 PAP GVSIWNPIL 128 9 0.0034 515 PAP GVSIWNPILL 128 10 0.0016 516 PSM HIHSTNEV 345 8 517 PSM HIHSTNEVT 345 9 518 PSM HIHSTNEVTRI 345 11 519 PSM HLAGTEQNFQL 82 11 520 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCA 177 9 0.0020 0.0049 0.0005 0.0009 0.0003 521 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCARA 177 11 0.0290 0.0520 0.1100 0.0088 0.0004 522 PSM HLTVAQVRGGM 573 11 523 PAP HMKRATQI 270 8 524 PAP HQGTEDST 378 8 525 PAP HTVPLSEDQL 144 10 0.0002 526 PAP HTVPLSEDQLL 144 11 527 PSA HVISNDVCA 173 9 0.0001 528 PSA HVISNDVCAQV 173 11 0.0024 529 PSM IAEAVGLPSI 283 10 0.0001 530 Kallikrein IALSVGCT 8 8 0.0001 −0.0002 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0003 531 Kallikrein IALSVGCTGA 8 10 0.0013 0.0500 0.0180 0.0180 0.0005 532 Kallikrein IALSVGCTGAV 8 11 0.0009 0.0032 0.0270 0.0100 0.0061 533 PSM IASGRARYT 530 9 534 PSM IASKFSERL 642 9 0.0001 535 PAP IATLGKLSGL 188 10 0.0002 536 PSM IINEDGNEI 130 9 0.0002 537 PSM ILFASWDA 416 8 538 PSM ILGGHRDSWV 373 10 0.0003 539 PSA ILLGRHSL 69 8 0.0010 540 PAP ILLWQPIPV 135 9 1.3000 541 PAP ILLWQPIPVHT 135 11 542 PAP ILNHMKRA 267 8 543 PAP ILNHMKRAT 267 9 0.0001 544 PAP ILNHMKRATQI 267 11 545 PSM ILNLNGAGDPL 258 11 546 PSM ILYSDPADYFA 226 11 547 PAP IMYSAHDT 284 8 548 PAP IMYSAHDTT 284 9 0.0019 549 PAP IMYSAHDTTV 284 10 0.0610 550 PSM IQSQWKEFGL 96 10 551 Kallikrein ITDVVKVL 132 8 0.0001 0.0010 0.0001 −0.0001 0.0002 552 Kallikrein ITDVVKVLGL 132 10 0.0003 0.0084 0.0088 0.0004 0.0005 553 PSM ITPKHNMKA 52 9 554 PSM ITPKHNMKAFL 52 11 555 Kallikrein ITSWGPEPCA 226 10 0.0003 0.0100 0.0031 0.0005 0.0002 556 Kallkrein ITSWGPEPCAL 226 11 0.0003 0.0150 0.0007 0.0013 0.0350 557 PSA ITSWGSEPCA 222 10 0.0003 0.0036 0.0030 0.0001 0.0003 558 PSA ITSWGSEPCAL 222 11 0.0010 0.0120 0.0096 0.0001 0.0003 559 PSM IVIARYGKV 200 9 0.0001 560 PSM IVLPFDCRDYA 591 11 561 PSM IVLRMMNDQL 659 10 0.0004 562 PSM IVLRMMNDQLM 659 11 563 PSM IVRSFGTL 398 8 564 PSM KAENIKKFL 66 9 0.0002 565 PSM KAFLDELKA 59 9 566 PSM KAWGEVKRQI 723 10 0.0001 567 PSM KINCSGKI 193 8 568 PSM KINCSGKIV 193 9 0.0002 569 PSM KKINCSGKIVI 193 10 0.0001 570 PSM KINCSGKIVIA 193 11 571 Kallikrein KITDVVKV 131 8 0.0004 0.0002 0.0017 0.0002 −0.0001 572 Kallikrein KITDVVKVL 131 9 0.0047 0.0500 0.0420 0.0021 0.0002 573 Kallikrein KITDVVKVLGL 131 11 0.0002 0.0053 0.1700 0.0011 0.0006 574 PSM KIVIARYGKV 199 10 0.0002 575 PSM KLERDMKI 187 8 576 PSM KLGSGNDFEV 514 10 0.0140 577 PAP KLIMYSAHDT 282 10 0.0002 578 PAP KLIMYSAHDTT 282 11 579 PSM KLLEKMGGSA 304 10 0.0003 580 PSA KLQCVDLHV 166 9 0.0190 581 PSA KLQCVDLHVI 166 10 0.0370 582 PAP KLRELSEL 234 8 583 PAP KLRELSELSL 234 10 0.0040 584 PAP KLRELSELSLL 234 11 585 PAP KLSGLHGQDL 193 10 0.0026 586 PSM KMHIHSTNEV 343 10 0.0042 587 PSM KMHIHSTNEVT 343 11 588 PAP KQKEKSRL 251 8 589 PSM KTHPNYISI 122 9 0.0002 590 PSM KTHPNYISII 122 10 0.0001 591 PSM KTYSVSFDSL 623 10 0.0002 592 PSM KVDPSKAWGEV 718 11 593 PSM KVFRGNKV 207 8 594 PSM KVFRGNKVKNA 207 11 595 PSM KVKMHIHST 341 9 596 PSM KVKNAQLA 213 8 597 PSM KVKNAQLAGA 213 10 598 Kallikrein KVLGLPTQEPA 137 11 0.0001 0.0004 0.0009 0.0012 0.0005 599 PSA KVMDLPTQEPA 133 11 0.0014 600 PSM KVPYNVGPGFT 324 11 601 Kallikrein KVTEFMLCA 191 9 0.0035 0.0092 0.1900 0.1600 0.0004 602 Kallikrein KVTEFMLCAGL 191 11 0.0010 0.0280 0.0280 0.0160 0.0036 603 PSA KVTKFMLCA 187 9 0.0020 604 Kallikrein KVVHYRKWI 245 9 0.0001 605 PSA KVVHYRKWI 241 9 0.0001 606 PAP KVYDPLYGESV 208 11 607 PAP LAALFPPEGV 120 10 0.0017 608 PSM LAGAKGVI 219 8 609 PSM LAGAKGVIL 219 9 0.0002 610 PSM LAGGFFLL 28 8 611 PSM LAGGFFLLGFL 28 11 612 PSM LAGTEQNFQL 83 10 0.0001 613 PSM LAGTEQNFQLA 83 11 614 PSM LAHYDVLL 110 8 615 PAP LAKELKFV 31 8 616 PAP LAKELKFVT 31 9 617 PAP LAKELKFVTL 31 10 0.0002 618 PAP LAKELKFVTLV 31 11 619 PAP LARAASLSL 8 9 0.0002 620 PAP LIMYSAHDT 283 9 621 PAP LIMYSAHDTT 283 10 622 PAP LIMYSAHDTTV 283 11 623 PAP LLARAASL 7 8 624 PAP LLARAASLSL 7 10 0.0061 625 PSM LLEKMGGSA 305 9 0.0001 626 PAP LLFFWLDRSV 21 10 0.6000 627 PAP LLFFWLDRSVL 21 11 628 PSM LLGFLFGWFI 34 10 0.0058 629 PSM LLGSTEWA 428 8 630 PSM LLHETDSA 4 8 631 PSM LLHETDSAV 4 9 0.0180 632 PSM LLHETDSAVA 4 10 0.0006 633 PSM LLHETDSAVAT 4 11 634 PAP LLLARAASL 6 9 0.0120 635 PAP LLLARAASLSL 6 11 636 PAP LLPPYASCHL 306 10 0.0017 637 PAP LLPPYASCHLT 306 11 638 PSM LLQERGVA 441 8 639 PSM LLQERGVAYI 441 10 0.0280 0.7500 1.5000 0.0043 0.0006 640 Kallikrein LLRLSEPA 123 8 0.0001 641 PSA LLRLSEPA 119 8 0.0001 642 PSA LLRLSEPAEL 119 10 0.0001 643 PSA LLRLSEPAELT 119 11 0.0023 0.0140 0.0150 0.0002 0.0010 644 Kallikrein LLRLSEPAKI 123 10 0.0030 0.0290 0.9200 0.0010 0.0008 645 Kallikrein LLRLSEPAKIT 123 11 0.0002 0.0007 0.0180 −0.0001 −0.0001 646 Kallikrein LLSNDMCA 178 8 0.0003 0.0073 0.0003 0.0021 −0.0001 647 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARA 178 10 0.0030 0.0800 0.0280 0.0020 0.0042 648 PSM LLSYPNKT 116 8 649 PAP LLWQPIPV 136 8 650 PAP LLWQPIPVHT 136 10 0.0074 651 PAP LLWQPIPVHTV 136 11 652 PSM LMFLERAFI 668 9 0.0110 653 Kallikrein LMLLRLSEPA 121 10 0.0018 654 PSA LMLLRLSEPA 117 10 0.0018 655 PAP LMSAMTNL 113 8 656 PAP LMSAMTNLA 113 9 0.0071 657 PAP LMSAMTNLAA 113 10 0.0037 658 PAP LMSAMTNLAAL 113 11 659 PSM LMYSLVHNL 469 9 0.0780 11.0000 4.8000 0.0340 0.0250 660 PSM LMYSLVHNLT 469 10 0.0046 661 PSA LQCVDLHV 167 8 662 PSA LQCVDLHVI 167 9 663 Kallikrein LQCVSLHL 171 8 664 Kallikrein LQCVSLHLL 171 9 665 PSM LQDFDKSNPI 650 10 666 PSM LQDFDKSNPIV 650 11 667 PSM LQERGVAYI 442 9 668 PSM LQERGVAYINA 442 11 669 PAP LQGGVLVNEI 258 10 670 PAP LQGGVLVNEIL 258 11 671 PAP LQMALDVYNGL 296 11 672 PSA LTDAVKVM 128 8 0.0001 −0.0001 0.0002 −0.0001 0.0001 673 PSA LTDAVKVMDL 128 10 0.0002 674 PSA LTLSVTWI 4 8 0.0003 −0.0001 0.0006 0.0007 0.0001 675 PSA LTLSVTWIGA 4 10 0.0018 0.0450 0.0820 0.0110 0.0910 676 PSA LTLSVTWIGAA 4 11 0.0008 0.0014 0.0370 0.0025 0.0062 677 PSM LTPGYPANEYA 268 11 678 PSA LTPKKLQCV 162 9 0.0003 679 PSA LTPKKLQCVDL 162 11 0.0007 0.0087 0.0074 0.0004 0.0021 680 PSM LTVAQVRGGM 574 10 681 PSM LTVAQVRGGMV 574 11 682 PSA LVASRGRA 37 8 0.0001 683 PSA LVASRGRAV 37 9 0.0003 684 Kallikrein LVCNGVLQGG 217 10 0.0004 685 PSA LVCNGVLQGI 213 10 0.0004 686 Kallikrein LVCNGVLQGIT 217 11 0.0007 0.0034 0.0033 0.0049 0.0041 687 PSA LVCNGVLQGIT 213 11 0.0007 0.0034 0.0033 0.0049 0.0041 688 PSM LVEKFYDPM 561 9 689 PAP LVFRHGDRSPI 40 11 690 PSM LVHNLTKEL 473 9 0.0001 691 Kallikrein LVHPQWVL 54 8 0.0001 692 PSA LVHPQWVL 50 8 0.0001 693 Kallikrein LVHPQWVLT 54 9 0.0001 694 PSA LVHPQWVLT 50 9 0.0001 695 Kallikrein LVHPQWVLTA 54 10 0.0001 696 PSA LVHPQWVLTA 50 10 0.0001 697 Kallikrein LVHPQWVLTAA 54 11 0.0001 698 PSA LVHPQWVLTAA 50 11 0.0001 699 PSM LVLAGGFFL 26 9 0.0280 0.0030 0.0004 0.1100 0.0003 700 PSM LVLAGGFFLL 26 10 0.0021 701 Kallikrein LVLSTALSV 4 9 0.0020 0.0027 0.0085 0.0190 0.0002 702 PAP LVNEILNHM 263 9 703 PSM LVYVNYART 174 9 704 PAP MALDVYNGL 298 9 0.0037 705 PAP MALDVYNGLL 298 10 0.0010 706 Kallikrein MLCAGLWT 196 8 0.0014 0.0020 0.0018 0.0001 0.0002 707 PSA MLCAGRWT 192 8 0.0006 0.0012 0.0033 −0.0001 0.0001 708 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPA 122 9 0.0610 709 PSA MLLRLSEPA 118 9 0.0610 710 PSA MLLRLSEPAEL 118 11 0.1400 711 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPAKI 122 11 0.0044 0.0072 0.2100 0.0019 0.0007 712 PAP MLPGCSPSCPL 343 11 713 PSM MMNDQLMFL 663 9 0.4400 5.7000 5.8000 0.4900 0.0410 714 PAP MTKLRELSEL 232 10 0.0002 715 PAP MTTNSHQGT 373 9 716 PSM MVFELANSI 583 9 0.0170 717 PSM MVFELANSIV 583 10 0.0140 718 PSM MVFELANSIVL 583 11 719 PSM NADSSIEGNYT 451 11 720 PSM NAQLAGAKGV 216 10 0.0002 721 PSM NAQLAGAKGVI 216 11 722 PSM NIKKFLYNFT 69 10 723 PSM NILNLNGA 257 8 724 PSM NITPKHNM 51 8 725 PSM NITPKHNMKA 51 10 726 PAP NLAALFPPEGV 119 11 727 Kallikrein NLFEPEDT 79 8 0.0002 0.0035 0.0004 −0.0001 0.0004 728 PSM NLLHETDSA 3 9 0.0001 729 PSM NLLHETDSAV 3 10 0.0027 730 PSM NLLHETDSAVA 3 11 731 PSM NLNGAGDPL 260 9 0.0007 732 PSM NLNGAGDPLT 260 10 0.0002 733 PSM NMKAFLDEL 57 9 0.0026 734 PSM NMKAFLDELKA 57 11 735 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSL 102 10 0.0043 0.0260 0.0400 0.0058 0.0020 736 PSM NVIGTLRGA 357 9 737 PSM NVIGTLRGAV 357 10 0.0001 738 PSM NVSDIVPPFSA 153 11 739 PSM PADYFAPGV 231 9 0.0001 740 PSA PAELTDAV 125 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 741 PSA PAELTDAVKV 125 10 0.0002 742 PSA PAELTDAVKVM 125 11 0.0003 0.0028 0.0008 −0.0001 −0.0001 743 Kallikrein PAKITDVV 129 8 0.0001 0.0003 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 744 Kallikrein PAKITDVVKV 129 10 0.0011 0.0100 0.0320 0.0006 0.0002 745 Kallikrein PAKITDVVKVL 129 11 0.0002 0.0006 0.0017 −0.0001 0.0001 746 Kallikrein PALGTTCYA 146 9 0.0083 0.0210 0.0270 0.0002 0.0035 747 PSA PALGTTCYA 142 9 0.0083 0.0210 0.0270 0.0002 0.0035 748 PSM PANEYAYRRGI 273 11 749 Kallikrein PAVYTKVV 240 8 0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 750 PAP PIDTFPTDPI 49 10 0.0002 751 PSM PIGYYDAQKL 296 10 0.0001 752 PSM PIGYYDAQKLL 296 11 753 PAP PILLWQPI 134 8 754 PAP PILLWQPIPV 134 10 0.0075 755 PAP PIPVHTVPL 140 9 0.0002 756 PSM PIVLRMMNDQL 658 11 757 PAP PLERFAEL 352 8 758 PAP PLERFAELV 352 9 0.0001 759 PSA PLILSRIV 15 8 0.0001 760 Kallikrein PLIQSRIV 19 8 0.0001 0.0002 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 761 PAP PLLLARAA 5 8 762 PAP PLLLARAASL 5 10 0.0004 763 PSM PLMYSLVHNL 468 10 0.0008 764 PSM PLMYSLVHNLT 468 11 765 PAP PLSEDQLL 147 8 766 PAP PLSEDQLLYL 147 10 0.0006 767 PSM PLTPGYPA 267 8 768 Kallikrein PLVGNGVL 216 8 0.0001 769 PSA PLVGNGVL 212 8 0.0001 770 Kallikrein PLVCNGVLQGI 216 11 0.0020 771 PSA PLVCNGVLQGI 212 11 0.0020 772 PAP PLYCESVHNFT 212 11 773 PSA PLYDMSLL 95 8 0.0002 774 PSM PLYHSVYET 550 9 0.0002 775 Kallikrein PLYNMSLL 99 8 0.0002 0.0008 0.0002 −0.0001 −0.0001 776 PSM PMFKYHLT 568 8 777 PSM PMFKYHLTV 568 9 0.0042 778 PSM PMFKYHLTVA 568 10 0.0005 779 PAP PQDWSTECM 365 9 780 PAP PQDWSTECMT 365 10 781 PAP PQDWSTECMTT 365 11 782 PSM PQEMKTYSV 619 9 783 PAP PQGFGQLT 64 8 784 PAP PQGFGQLTQL 64 10 785 PSM PQGMPEGDL 166 9 786 PSM PQGMPEGDLV 166 10 787 PSA PQKVTKFM 185 8 788 PSA PQKVTKFML 185 9 789 PSA PQKVTKFMLCA 185 11 790 PSM PQSGAAVV 388 8 791 PSM PQSGAAVVHEI 388 11 792 Kallikrein PQWVLTAA 57 8 793 PSA PQWVLTAA 53 8 794 PSA PQWVLTAAHCI 53 11 795 Kallikrein PQWVLTAAHCL 57 11 796 Kallikrein PTQEPALGT 142 9 0.0001 797 PSA PTQEPALGT 138 9 0.0001 798 Kallikrein PTQEPALGTT 142 10 0.0084 0.0220 0.0520 0.0037 0.0005 799 PSA PTQEPALGTT 138 10 0.0084 0.0220 0.0520 0.0037 0.0005 800 PSM PVHPIGYYDA 293 10 801 PAP PVIPQDWST 362 9 802 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPL 91 10 0.0019 0.0099 0.0680 0.0022 0.0011 803 PSM QAAAETLSEV 740 10 0.0006 804 PSM QAAAETLSEVA 740 11 805 PSM QIPHLAGT 79 8 806 PAP QIPSYKKL 276 8 807 PAP QIPSYKKLI 276 9 0.0002 808 PAP QIPSYKKLIM 276 10 809 PSM QIQSQWKEFGL 95 11 810 PSM QIYVAAFT 731 8 811 PSM QIYVAAFTV 731 9 0.0026 812 PSM QIYVAAFTVQA 731 11 813 PSM QLAGAKGV 218 8 814 PSM QLAGAKGVI 218 9 0.0001 815 PSM QLAGAKGVIL 218 10 0.0006 816 PAP QLGMEQHYEL 72 10 0.0003 817 PSM QLMFLERA 667 8 818 PSM QLMFLERAFI 667 10 0.0510 0.1200 0.1100 0.0003 0.2700 819 PAP QMALDVYNGL 297 10 0.0002 820 PAP QMALDVYNGLL 297 11 821 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGWA 39 10 0.0004 0.0097 0.0200 0.0005 0.0252 822 PSA QVHPQKVT 182 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 823 PSA QVHPQKVTKFM 182 11 0.0001 824 PSA QVLVASRGRA 35 10 0.0001 825 PSA QVLVASRGRAV 35 11 0.0001 826 PSM QVRGGMVFEL 578 10 0.0001 827 PSM QVRGGMVFELA 578 11 828 PSA QVSHSFPHPL 87 10 0.0001 829 Kallikrein QVWLGRHNL 72 9 0.0001 0.0021 0.0011 0.0025 0.0510 830 PAP QVYIRSTDV 101 9 0.0002 831 PAP RAAPLLLA 2 8 832 PAP RAAPLLLARA 2 10 833 PAP RAAPLLLARAA 2 11 834 PAP RAASLSLGFL 10 10 0.0002 835 PSM RAFIDPLGL 673 9 0.0001 836 PSM RARYTKNWET 534 10 837 PAP RATQTPSYKKL 273 11 838 PSA RAVCGGVL 43 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0003 −0.0001 −0.0001 839 PSA RAVCGGVLV 43 9 0.0002 840 Kallikrein RAYSEKVT 186 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0003 0.0001 −0.0001 841 Kallikrein RAYSEKVTEFM 186 11 0.0007 0.0560 0.0016 0.0018 0.0009 842 PSM RIYNVIGT 354 8 843 PSM RIYNVIGTL 354 9 0.0004 844 PSM RLGIASGRA 527 9 0.0001 845 PAP RLHPYKDFI 180 9 0.0006 846 PAP RLHPYKDFIA 180 10 0.0048 847 PAP RLHPYKDFIAT 180 11 848 PSM RLLQERGV 440 8 849 PSM RLLQERGVA 440 9 0.0001 850 PSM RLLQERGVAYI 440 11 851 PSM RLQDFDKSNPI 649 11 852 PAP RLQGGVLV 257 8 853 PAP RLQGGVLVNEI 257 11 854 PSA RLSEPAEL 121 8 0.0004 855 PSA RLSEPAELT 121 9 0.0003 856 PSA RLSEPAELTDA 121 11 0.0007 857 Kallikrein RLSEPAKI 125 8 −0.0001 0.0005 0.0007 −0.0001 −0.0001 858 Kallikrein RLSEPAKIT 125 9 −0.0001 −0.0002 0.0009 −0.0001 −0.0002 859 Kallikrein RLSEPAKITDV 125 11 0.0015 0.0043 0.0210 0.0002 0.0006 860 PSM RMMNDQLM 662 8 861 PSM RMMNDQLMFL 662 10 0.5100 1.6000 1.3000 0.0930 0.0005 862 PSM RQIYVAAFT 730 9 863 PSM RQIYVAAFTV 730 10 864 PSM RTEDFFKL 181 8 865 PSM RTILFASWDA 414 10 866 PAP RTLMSAMT 111 8 867 PAP RTLMSAMTNL 111 10 0.0150 868 PAP RTLMSAMTNLA 111 11 869 PSM RVDGTPLM 463 8 870 PSM RVDCTPLMYSL 463 11 871 PSM SAFSPQGM 162 8 872 PAP SAHDTTVSGL 287 10 0.0002 873 PAP SAMTNLAA 115 8 874 PAP SAMTNLAAL 115 9 0.0043 875 PSM SAVKNFTEI 634 9 0.0001 876 PSM SAVKNFTEIA 634 10 877 Kallikrein SIALSVGCT 7 9 −0.0001 0.0006 0.0087 0.0006 0.0004 878 Kallikrein SIALSVGCTGA 7 11 0.0029 0.0066 0.0160 0.0100 0.0055 879 PSM SIEGNYTL 455 8 880 PSM SIEGNYTLRV 455 10 0.0001 881 Kallikrein SIEPEEFL 159 8 0.0001 882 PSA SIEPEEFL 155 8 0.0001 883 PSA SIEPEEFLT 155 9 0.0001 884 PSM SIINEDGNEI 129 10 0.0001 885 PSM SISMKMPQEM 613 10 886 PAP SIWNPILL 130 8 887 PSA SLFHPEDT 75 8 0.0003 0.0032 0.0028 −0.0001 −0.0001 888 PSA SLFHPEDTGQV 75 11 0.0190 889 PSM SLFSAVKNFT 631 10 0.0010 890 PAP SLGFLFLL 15 8 891 Kallikrein SLHLLSNDM 175 9 0.0003 0.0720 0.0180 −0.0001 0.0004 892 Kallikrein SLHLLSNDMCA 175 11 0.0390 1.9000 0.6900 0.0005 0.0004 893 PSM SLKVPYNV 322 8 894 Kallikrein SLLKHQSL 104 8 0.0002 0.0007 0.0002 −0.0001 −0.0001 895 PSA SLLKNRFL 100 8 0.0020 896 PAP SLLSLYGI 242 8 897 Kallikrein SLQCVSLHL 170 9 0.0100 0.0840 0.0240 0.0006 0.0031 898 Kallikrein SLQCVSLHLL 170 10 0.0099 0.4000 0.0920 0.0059 0.0008 899 PAP SLSLGFLFL 13 9 0.0200 900 PAP SLSLGFLFLL 13 10 0.0170 901 PSM SLVHNLTKEL 472 10 0.0002 902 PSM SMKHPQEM 615 8 903 PSM SMKHPQEMKT 615 10 0.0001 904 Kallikrein SQPWQVAV 35 8 905 PSA SQPWQVLV 31 8 906 PSA SQPWQVLVA 31 9 907 Kallikrein SQVWLGRHNL 71 10 908 PSM SQWKEFGL 98 8 909 PSM SQWKEFGLDSV 98 11 910 PSA STCSGDSGGPL 203 11 0.0005 0.0150 0.0092 0.0002 0.0035 911 PAP STDVDRTL 106 8 912 PAP STDVDRTLM 106 9 913 PAP STDVDRTLMSA 106 11 914 PSM STEWAEENSRL 431 11 915 PSM STNEVTRI 348 8 916 PSM STNEVTRIYNV 348 11 917 PSM STQKVKMHI 338 9 0.0001 918 PSM SVELAHYDV 107 9 0.0001 919 PSM SVELAHYDVL 107 10 0.0002 920 PSM SVELAHYDVLL 107 11 921 Kallikrein SVGCTGAV 11 8 0.0004 0.0006 0.0022 0.0003 −0.0001 922 Kallikrein SVGGTGAVPL 11 10 0.0024 0.0760 0.0065 0.0026 0.0035 923 Kallikrein SVGCTGAVPLI 11 11 0.0100 0.0010 0.0007 0.0007 0.0005 924 PAP SVHNFTLPSWA 217 11 925 PSA SVILLGRHSL 67 10 0.0001 926 PAP SVLAKELKFV 29 10 0.0031 927 PAP SVLAKELKFVT 29 11 928 PSM SVSFDSLESA 626 10 929 PSM SVSFDSLFSAV 626 11 930 PSA SVTWIGAA 7 8 0.0001 931 PSA SVTWIGAAPL 7 10 0.0001 932 PSA SVTWIGAAPLI 7 11 0.0001 933 PSM SVYETYEL 554 8 934 PSM SVYETYELV 554 9 0.0073 935 PSA TAAHCIRNKSV 58 11 0.0005 0.0057 0.0085 0.0004 0.0105 936 PSM TARRPRWL 14 8 937 PSM TARRPRWLCA 14 10 938 PSM TILFASWDA 415 9 939 PAP TLGKLSGL 190 8 940 PAP TLKSEEFQKRL 171 11 941 PAP TLMSAMTNL 112 9 0.0650 942 PAP TLMSAMTNLA 112 10 0.0065 943 PAP TLMSAMTNLAA 112 11 944 PAP TLPSWATEDT 222 10 0.0002 945 PAP TLPSWATEDTM 222 11 946 PSM TLRVDCTPL 461 9 0.0012 947 PSM TLRVDCTPLM 461 10 0.0008 948 PSA TLSVTWIGA 5 9 0.0016 949 PSA TLSVTWIGAA 5 10 0.0007 950 PAP TMTKLREL 231 8 951 PAP TMTKLRELSEL 231 11 952 Kallikrein TQEPALGT 143 8 953 PSA TQEPALGT 139 8 954 Kallikrein TQEPALGTT 143 9 955 PSA TQEPALGTT 139 9 956 PAP TQHEPYPL 335 8 957 PAP TQHEPYPLM 335 9 958 PAP TQHEPYPLML 335 10 959 PSM TQIPHLAGT 78 9 960 PAP TQIPSYKKL 275 9 961 PAP TQIPSYKKLI 275 10 962 PAP TQIPSYKKLIM 275 11 963 PSM TQKVKMHI 339 8 964 PSM TQKVKMHIHST 339 11 965 PAP TQLGMEQHYEL 71 11 966 Kallikrein TTCYASGWGSI 150 11 −0.0001 0.0009 0.0025 0.0005 0.1400 967 PSA TTCYASGWGSI 146 11 −0.0001 0.0009 0.0025 0.0005 0.1400 968 PAP TTNSHQGT 374 8 969 PAP TTVSGLQM 291 8 970 PAP TTVSGLQMA 291 9 971 PAP TTVSGLQMAL 291 10 0.0020 972 PSM TVAQVRGGM 575 9 973 PSM TVAQVRGGMV 575 10 0.0005 974 PAP TVPLSEDQL 145 9 0.0002 975 PAP TVPLSEDQLL 145 10 0.0001 976 PSM TVQAAAET 738 8 977 PSM TVQAAAETL 738 9 0.0002 978 PAP TVSGLQMA 292 8 979 PAP TVSGLQMAL 292 9 0.0044 980 PAP TVSGLQMALDV 292 11 981 PSM VAAFTVQA 734 8 982 PSM VAAFTVQAA 734 9 983 PSM VAAFTVQAAA 734 10 984 PSM VAQVRGGM 576 8 985 PSM VAQVRGGMV 576 9 0.0002 986 PSA VASRGRAV 38 8 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 −0.0001 987 PSM VATARRPRWL 12 10 0.0001 988 Kallikrein VAVYSHGWA 40 9 −0.0001 −0.0001 0.0002 0.0002 0.0004 989 PSM VAYINADSSI 447 10 0.0001 990 PSM VIARYGKV 201 8 991 PSM VIGTLRGA 358 8 992 PSM VIGTLRGAV 358 9 0.0002 993 PSM VILGGHRDSWV 372 11 994 PSA VILLGRHSL 68 9 0.0003 995 PSM VILYSDPA 225 8 996 PAP VIPQDWST 363 8 997 PAP VIPQDWSTECM 363 11 998 PSA VISNDVCA 174 8 0.0001 999 PSA VISNDVCAQV 174 10 0.0008 1000 PSM VLAGGFFL 27 8 1001 PSM VLAGGFFLL 27 9 0.1300 19.0000 0.3000 0.1200 0.0028 1002 PAP VLAKELKFV 30 9 0.0590 1003 PAP VLAKELKFVT 30 10 0.0021 1004 PAP VLAKELKFVTL 30 11 1005 Kallikrein VLGLPTQEPA 138 10 0.0008 0.0150 0.0110 0.0004 −0.0001 1006 Kallikrein VLGLPTQEPAL 138 11 −0.0001 0.0007 0.0003 0.0003 0.0006 1007 PSM VLLSYPNKT 115 9 0.0002 1008 PSM VLPFDCRDYA 592 10 0.0013 1009 PSM VLPFDCRDYAV 592 11 1010 PSM VLRKYADKI 603 9 0.0002 1011 PSM VLRMMNDQL 660 9 0.0001 1012 PSM VLRMMNDQLM 660 10 0.0003 1013 Kallikrein VLSIALSV 5 8 0.0050 0.0790 0.0200 0.0024 0.0003 1014 Kallikrein VLSIALSVGCT 5 11 0.0002 0.0011 0.0048 0.0004 0.0005 1015 PSA VLTAAHCI 56 8 0.0001 1016 Kallikrein VLTAAHCL 60 8 0.0002 0.0034 0.0001 0.0001 0.0002 1017 PSA VLVASRGRA 36 9 0.0001 1018 PSA VLVASRGRAV 36 10 0.0003 1019 Kallikrein VLVHPQWV 53 8 0.0001 1020 PSA VLVHPQWV 49 8 0.0001 1021 Kallikrein VLVHPQWVL 53 9 0.0200 1022 PSA VLVHPQWVL 49 9 0.0200 1023 Kallikrein VLVHPQWVLT 53 10 0.0001 1024 PSA VLVHPQWVLT 49 10 0.0001 1025 Kallikrein VLVHPQWVLTA 53 11 0.0130 1026 PSA VLVHPQWVLTA 49 11 0.0130 1027 PAP VLVNEILNHM 262 10 0.0008 1028 PSA VMDLPTQEPA 134 10 0.0001 1029 PSA VMDLPTQEPAL 134 11 0.0021 0.0042 0.0014 0.0001 0.0003 1030 PSM VQAAAETL 739 8 1031 PSM VQAAAETLSEV 739 11 1032 PSM VQRGNILNL 253 9 1033 Kallikrein VTEFMLCA 192 8 −0.0001 0.0003 0.0005 0.0007 0.0007 1034 Kallikrein VTEFMLCAGL 192 10 0.0008 0.0180 0.0068 0.0004 0.0030 1035 PSA VTKFMLCA 188 8 0.0001 0.0002 0.0031 −0.0001 −00001 1036 PSM VTRIYNVI 352 8 1037 PSM VTRIYNVIGT 352 10 1038 PSM VTRIYNVIGTL 352 11 1039 PSA VTWIGAAPL 8 9 0.0110 1040 PSA VTWIGAAPLI 8 10 0.0019 1041 PSA VTWIGAAPLIL 8 11 0.0013 0.0005 0.0009 0.0011 0.0002 1042 PSA VVFLTLSV 1 8 0.0002 1043 PSA VVFLTLSVT 1 9 0.0008 1044 PSA VVFLTLSVTWI 1 11 0.0069 1045 PSM VVHEIVRSFGT 394 11 1046 Kallikrein VVHYRKWI 246 8 0.0001 0.0021 −0.0001 0.0001 −0.0001 1047 PSA VVHYRKWI 242 8 0.0001 0.0021 −0.0001 0.0001 −0.0001 1048 Kallikrein VVHYRKWIKDT 246 11 0.0001 0.0001 0.0002 0.0001 0.0004 1049 PSA VVHYRKWIKDT 242 11 0.0001 0.0001 0.0002 −0.0001 0.0004 1050 Kallikrein VVKVLGLPT 135 9 −0.0001 −0.0005 0.0007 0.0008 −0.0002 1051 PSM VVLRKYADKI 602 10 0.0001 1052 PSM WAEENSRL 434 8 1053 PSM WAEENSRLL 434 9 0.0001 1054 Kallikrein WAHCGGVL 47 8 −0.0001 0.0003 0.0005 0.0001 0.0070 1055 Kallikrein WAHCGGVLV 47 9 −0.0001 0.0004 0.0067 0.0007 0.0310 1056 PAP WATEDTMT 226 8 1057 PAP WATEDTMTKL 226 10 0.0002 1058 PSA WIGAAPLI 10 8 0.0005 1059 PSA WIGAAPLIL 10 9 0.0005 1060 Kallikrein WIKDTIAA 252 8 0.0002 0.0120 0.1700 0.0002 −0.0001 1061 PSA WIKDTIVA 248 8 0.0001 1062 PSM WLCAGALV 20 8 1063 PSM WLCAGALVL 20 9 0.0180 1064 PSM WLCAGALVLA 20 10 0.0120 1065 PAP WLDRSVLA 25 8 1066 PAP WLDRSVLAKEL 25 11 1067 PAP WQPIPVHT 138 8 1068 PAP WQPIPVHTV 138 9 1069 PAP WQPIPVHTVPL 138 11 1070 Kallikrein WQVAVYSHGWA 38 11 1071 PSA WQVLVASRGRA 34 11 1072 PSA WVLTAAHCI 55 9 0.0008 1073 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCL 59 9 0.0003 0.0018 0.0001 0.0160 0.0007 1074 PSM YADKIYSI 607 8 1075 PSM YADKIYSISM 607 10 1076 PSM YAGESFPGI 700 9 0.0013 1077 PSM YAPSSHNKYA 692 10 1078 PSM YARTEDFFKL 179 10 0.0002 1079 PAP YASCHLTEL 310 9 0.0037 1080 Kallikrein YASGWGSI 153 8 −0.0001 0.0009 0.0003 0.0003 0.0120 1081 PSA YASGWGSI 149 8 −0.0001 0.0009 0.0003 0.0003 0.0120 1082 PSM YAVVLRKYA 600 9 1083 PSM YAYRRCIA 277 8 1084 PSM YAYRRGIAEA 277 10 1085 PSM YAYRRGIAEAV 277 11 1086 PSM YINADSSI 449 8 1087 PAP YIRKRYRKFL 84 10 0.0002 1088 PAP YIRSTDVDRT 103 10 1089 PAP YIRSTDVDRTL 103 11 1090 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRKWI 243 11 0.0001 −0.0001 0.0004 −0.0001 0.0008 1091 PSA YTKVVHYRKWL 239 11 0.0001 −0.0001 0.0004 −0.0001 0.0008 1092 PSM YTLRVDCT 460 8 1093 PSM YTLRVDCTPL 460 10 0.0015 1094 PSM YTLRVDCTPLM 460 11 1095 PSM YVAAFTVQA 733 9 1096 PSM YVAAFTVQAA 733 10 1097 PSM YVAAFTVQAAA 733 11 1098

TABLE IX Prostate A03 Supermotif with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids A*0301 A*1101 A*3101 A*3301 A*6801 No. PSA AAHCIRNK 59 8 1099 PSA AAPLILSR 13 8 1100 PAP AAPLLLAR 3 8 1101 PSM AAVVHEIVR 392 9 1102 PSM ALFDIESK 711 8 1103 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVYTK 235 11 1104 PSA ALPERPSLYTK 231 11 1105 PSM ASGRARYTK 531 9 0.0086 0.2700 1106 PAP ATEDTMTK 227 8 0.0003 0.0039 1107 PAP ATEDTMTKLR 227 10 1108 PSM ATNITPKHNMK 49 11 1109 PAP ATQFPSYK 274 8 0.0180 0.0700 1110 PAP ATQIPSYKK 274 9 0.1000 1.2000 1111 PSM AVATARRPR 11 9 1112 PSM AVKNFTEIASK 635 11 1113 Kallikrein AVPLIQSR 17 8 1114 PSM AVVHEIVR 393 8 1115 PSM AVVLRKYADK 601 10 0.0026 0.0210 1116 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHYR 241 10 1117 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHYRK 241 11 1118 Kallikrein CAGLWTGGK 198 9 1119 PSA CAGRWTGGK 194 9 0.0006 0.0015 1120 PSA CAQVHPQK 180 8 1121 PSA CAQVHPQKVTK 180 11 1122 Kallikrein CARAYSEK 184 8 1123 PSM CSGKIVIAR 196 9 1124 PAP CSPSCPLER 347 9 0.0040 0.0006 1125 Kallikrein CTGAVPLIQSR 14 11 1126 PSM DALFDIESK 710 9 0.0006 0.0002 1127 PSM DAQKLLEK 301 8 1128 PSM DIESKVDPSK 714 10 0.0003 0.0002 1129 PAP DLFGIWSK 201 8 1130 PSM DLVYVNYAR 173 9 1131 Kallikrein DMCARAYSEK 182 10 1132 PSM DMKINCSGK 191 9 1133 PSA DMSLLKNR 98 8 0.0003 0.0001 1134 PSA DMSLLKNRFLR 98 11 1135 PSM DSAVATAR 9 8 1136 PSM DSAVATARR 9 9 1137 PSM DSAVATARRPR 9 11 1138 PSM DSLFSAVK 630 8 1139 Kallikrein DSSHDLMLLR 116 10 1140 PSA DSSHDLMLLR 112 10 1141 PSM DSSIEGNYTLR 453 11 1142 PSM DSSWRGSLK 316 9 0.0032 0.0003 1143 PAP DTFPTDPIK 51 9 0.0001 0.0001 1144 PSA DVCAQVHPQK 178 10 0.0007 0.0011 1145 PSM DVLLSYPNK 114 9 0.0006 0.0010 1146 PSM EATNITPK 48 8 1147 PSM EIASKFSER 641 9 0.0006 0.0002 1148 PAP EILNHMKR 266 8 1149 PSM EIVRSFGTLK 397 10 1150 PSM EIVRSFGTLKK 397 11 1151 PAP ELESETLK 166 8 1152 PAP ELGEYIRK 80 8 1153 PAP ELGEYIRKR 80 9 1154 PAP ELGEYIRKRYR 80 11 1155 PSM ELKAENIK 64 8 1156 PSM ELKAENIKK 64 9 1157 PAP ELKFVTLVFR 34 10 0.0014 0.0037 1158 PSM ESKVDPSK 716 8 1159 PAP ESYKHEQVYIR 95 11 1160 PSM ETDSAVATAR 7 10 1161 PSM ETDSAVATARR 7 11 1162 PAP ETLKSEEFQK 170 10 0.0004 0.0140 1163 PAP ETLKSEEFQKR 170 11 1164 PSM ETYELVEK 557 8 1165 PSM FIDPLGLPDR 675 10 1166 PSM FLDELKAENIK 61 11 1167 PSM FLFGWFIK 37 8 1168 PAP FLFLLFFWLDR 18 11 1169 PAP FLLFFWLDR 20 9 0.0024 0.0004 1170 PSM FSERLQDFDK 646 10 0.0003 0.0007 1171 PSM FSGMPRISK 506 9 1172 PSM FTEIASKFSER 639 11 1173 PSM FTGNFSTQK 333 9 1174 PSM FTGNFSTQKVK 333 11 1175 PAP FVTLVFRHGDR 37 11 1176 PSA GAAPLILSR 12 9 0.0150 0.0350 1177 PSM GAAVVHEIVR 391 10 1178 Kallikrein GAVPLIQSR 16 9 1179 PSM GIASGRAR 529 8 1180 PSM GIASGRARYTK 529 11 1181 PAP GIHKQKEK 248 8 1182 PAP GIHKQKEKSR 248 10 1183 PSM GLPDRPFYR 680 9 0.0460 0.0280 1184 PSM GSAPPDSSWR 311 10 0.0006 0.1400 1185 PSA GSEPCALPER 226 10 1186 Kallikrein GSIEPEEFLR 158 10 1187 PSM GSTEWAEENSR 430 11 1188 PSM GTEQNFQLAK 85 10 1189 PSM GTLKKEGWR 403 9 1190 PSM GTLKKEGWRPR 403 11 1191 PSM GTLRGAVEPDR 360 11 1192 PSM HIHSTNEVTR 345 10 1193 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCAR 177 10 1194 PAP HLTELYFEK 314 9 0.2700 0.5300 1195 PSM HLTVAQVR 573 8 1196 PSM HSTNEVTR 347 8 1197 PSM HVIYAPSSHNK 689 11 1198 PSM IARYGKVFR 202 9 1199 PSM IASGRARYTK 530 10 1200 PSM IASKFSER 642 8 1201 PSM ISMKHPQEMK 614 10 0.1900 0.1100 1202 PSM ITPKHNMK 52 8 1203 Kallikrein IVGGWECEK 25 9 0.0410 0.0190 0.0002 0.0006 0.0018 1204 PSA IVGGWECEK 21 9 0.0410 0.0190 0.0002 0.0006 0.0018 1205 PSM IVIARYGK 200 8 1206 PSM IVIARYGKVFR 200 11 1207 PSM IVLPFDCR 591 8 1208 PSM IVRSFGTLK 398 9 0.1700 0.0087 1209 PSM IVRSFGTLKK 398 10 0.0260 0.0006 1210 PSM KAFLDELK 59 8 1211 PSM KAWGEVKR 723 8 1212 PSM KIVIARYGK 199 9 0.0740 1.0000 1213 PSM KIYSISMK 610 8 1214 PAP KSEEFQKR 173 8 1215 PSM KSLYESWTK 491 9 0.4000 2.1000 1216 PSM KSLYESWTKK 491 10 0.3200 0.0810 1217 PSM KSNPIVLR 655 8 1218 PSM KSPDEGFEGK 482 10 0.0044 0.0210 1219 PSA KSVILLGR 66 8 1220 PSM KVFRGNKVK 207 9 0.1600 0.1200 1221 PSM KVKNAQLAGAK 213 11 1222 PSA KVTKFMLCAGR 187 11 1223 Kallikrein KVVHYRKWIK 245 10 0.0450 0.0450 1224 PSA KVVHYRKWIK 241 10 0.0450 0.0450 1225 PSM LAKQIQSQWK 92 10 0.0031 0.0007 1226 PAP LLFFWLDR 21 8 1227 PSM LLGFLFGWFIK 34 11 1228 Kallikrein LLKHQSLR 105 8 1229 PSA LLKNRFLR 101 8 1230 Kallikrein LLRLSEPAK 123 9 1231 PAP LLSLYGIHK 243 9 0.0760 0.2000 1232 PAP LLSLYGIHKQK 243 11 1233 Kallikrein LLSNDMCAR 178 9 1234 PAP LLYLPFRNCPR 153 11 1235 Kallikrein LMLLRLSEPAK 121 11 1236 PSM LMYSLVHNLTK 469 11 1237 PAP LSLLSLYGIHK 241 11 1238 PAP LSLYGIHK 244 8 1239 PAP LSLYGIHKQK 244 10 0.0520 0.0370 1240 Kallikrein LSNDMCAR 179 8 1241 PSA LTAAHCIR 57 8 1242 PSA LTAAHCIRNK 57 10 0.1400 0.0830 1243 Kallikrein LTAAHCLK 61 8 1244 Kallikrein LTAAHCLKK 61 9 1245 PAP LTELYFEK 315 8 0.0014 0.0100 1246 PSM LVEKFYDPMFK 561 11 1247 PAP LVFRKGDR 40 8 0.0003 0.0002 1248 PSM LVHNLTKELK 473 10 1249 PAP LVNEILNHMK 263 10 0.0560 0.1200 1250 PAP LVNEILNHMKR 263 11 1251 PSM LVYVNYAR 174 8 1252 Kallikrein MLCAGLWTGGK 196 11 1253 PSA MLCAGRWTGGK 192 11 1254 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPAK 122 10 1255 PSM MMNDQLMFLER 663 11 1256 Kallikrein MSLLKHQSLR 103 10 1257 PSA MSLLKNRFLR 99 10 0.0070 0.0110 1258 PSM NAQLAGAK 216 8 1259 PSM NITPKHNMK 51 9 1260 Kallikrein NLFEPEDTGQR 79 11 1261 PSM NLPGGGVQR 247 9 1262 PSM NMKAFLDELK 57 10 1263 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSLR 102 11 1264 PSM NSIVLPFDCR 589 10 1265 Kallikrein NSQVWLGR 70 8 1266 PSM NSRLLQER 438 8 1267 PSM PADYFAPGVK 231 10 1268 PSA PAELTDAVK 125 9 0.0002 0.0002 0.0004 0.0006 0.0001 1269 Kallikrein PAKITDVVK 129 9 1270 PSM PANEYAYR 273 8 1271 PSM PANEYAYRR 273 9 0.0001 0.0002 1272 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVHYR 240 11 1273 PAP PIDTFPTDPIK 49 11 1274 PSM PIGYYDAQK 296 9 1275 PSM PLGLPDRPFYR 678 11 1276 PSA PLYDMSLLK 95 9 0.2400 0.0370 0.0002 0.0006 0.0001 1277 PSA PLYDMSLLKNR 95 11 1278 Kallikrein PLYNMSLLK 99 9 1279 PSM PSKAWGEVK 721 9 1280 PSM PSKAWGEVKR 721 10 0.0003 0.0002 1281 PSA PSLYTKVVHYR 236 11 1282 PSM PSPEFSGMPR 502 10 1283 PAP PSWATEDTMTK 224 11 1284 PSM QLAKQIQSQWK 91 11 1285 PAP QLLYLPFR 152 8 1286 PSA QVHPQKVTK 182 9 0.0060 0.0140 0.0028 0.0014 0.0051 1287 PSA QVLVASRGR 35 9 0.0021 0.0018 1288 PAP QVYIRSTDVDR 101 11 1289 PAP RAAPLLLAR 2 9 0.1500 0.1200 1290 PAP RATQIPSYK 273 9 0.0210 0.0600 1291 PAP RATQIPSYKK 273 10 0.0053 0.0250 1292 Kallikrein RIVGGWECEK 24 10 0.0460 0.0670 1293 PSA RIVGGWECEK 20 10 0.0460 0.0670 1294 PSM RIYNVIGTLR 354 10 0.3700 0.4300 1295 PSM RLGIASGR 527 8 1296 PSM RLGIASGRAR 527 10 1297 PSM RSFGTLKK 400 8 1298 PAP RSVLAKELK 28 9 0.0490 0.1100 1299 PSM RTEDFFKLER 181 10 1300 PSM SAPPDSSWR 312 9 0.0006 0.0012 1301 PSM SAVATARR 10 8 1302 PSM SAVATARRPR 10 10 1303 PSM SIEGNYTLR 455 9 1304 Kallikrein SIEPEEFLR 159 9 1305 Kallikrein SIEPEEFLRPR 159 11 1306 PSA SIEPEEFLTPK 155 11 1307 PSM SISMKHPQEMK 613 11 1308 PSM SIVLPFDCR 590 9 0.0006 0.0220 1309 Kallikrein SLLKHQSLR 104 9 1310 PSA SLLKNRFLR 100 9 0.0024 0.0470 1311 PAP SLLSLYGIHK 242 10 0.4900 2.3000 1312 PSM SLVHNLTK 472 8 1313 PSM SLVHNLTKELK 472 11 1314 PSM SLYESWTK 492 8 1315 PSM SLYESWTKK 492 9 1.0000 2.0000 1316 PAP SLYGIHKQK 245 9 1.1000 0.8000 1317 PAP SLYGIHKQKEK 245 11 1318 PSA SLYTKVVHYR 237 10 0.2800 0.2300 1319 PSA SLYTKVVHYRK 237 11 1320 PSM SMKHPQEMK 615 9 0.1100 0.0720 1321 Kallikrein SSHDLMLLR 117 9 0.0039 1.2000 1322 PSA SSHDLMLLK 113 9 0.0039 1.2000 1323 PSM SSIEGNYTLR 454 10 0.0007 0.0910 1324 PSM SSNEATNITPK 45 11 1325 PSM SSWRGSLK 317 8 1326 PSM STEWAEENSR 431 10 0.0005 0.0016 1327 PAP SVLAKELK 29 8 0.0017 0.0061 1328 PSM SVYETYELVEK 554 11 1329 PSA TAAHCIRNK 58 9 0.0094 0.0140 1330 Kallikrein TAAHCLKK 62 8 1331 PSM TLKKEGWR 404 8 1332 PSM TLKKEGWRPR 404 10 0.0007 0.0002 1333 PSM TLKKEGWRPRR 404 11 1334 PAP TLKSEEFQK 171 9 00006 0.0078 1335 PAP TLKSEEFQKR 171 10 0.0007 0.0001 1336 PSM TLRGAVEPDR 361 10 0.0003 0.0002 1337 PAP TLVFRHGDR 39 9 0.0006 0.0002 1338 PSM VATARRPR 12 8 1339 PSM VIARYGKVFR 201 10 1340 PSM VIYAPSSHNK 690 10 0.5400 0.7900 1341 PSM VLLSYPNK 115 8 1342 PSM VLRKYADK 603 8 1343 PSA VLTAAHCIR 56 9 0.0002 0.0005 1344 PSA VLTAAHCIRNK 56 11 1345 Kallikrein VLTAAHCLK 60 9 1346 Kallikrein VLTAAHCLKK 60 10 1347 PSA VLVASRGR 36 8 1348 PAP VLVNEILNHMK 262 11 1349 PSM VSFDSLFSAVK 627 11 1350 PSA VTKFMLCAGR 188 10 0.0003 0.0120 1351 PAP VTLVFRHGDR 38 10 1352 Kallikrein VVHYRKWIK 246 9 0.0072 0.0930 0.5500 0.0490 0.0028 1353 PSA VVIIYRKWIK 242 9 0.0072 0.0930 0.5500 0.0490 0.0028 1354 PSM VVLRKYADK 602 9 0.0390 0.0660 1355 PAP WATEDTMTK 226 9 0.0006 0.0002 1356 PAP WATEDTMTKLR 226 11 1357 PSA WIGAAPLILSR 10 11 1358 PAP WLDRSVLAK 25 9 0.0035 0.0150 1359 PSA WVLTAAHCIR 55 10 0.0004 0.0001 1360 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCLK 59 10 1361 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCLKK 59 11 1362 PSM YADKIYSISMK 607 11 1363 PSM YAPSSHNK 692 8 1364 PSM YARTEDFFK 179 9 1365 PSM YAVVLRKYADK 600 11 1366 PAP YIRKRYRK 84 8 1367 PAP YIRSTDVDR 103 9 1368 PAP YLPFRNCPR 155 9 1369 PSM YSLVHNLTK 471 9 0.0600 0.5400 1370 PSM YTKNWETNK 537 9 1371 Kallikrein YTKVVHYR 243 8 1372 PSA YTKVVHYR 239 8 1373 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRK 243 9 0.0006 0.0580 1.2000 2.8000 1.3000 1374 PSA YTKVVHYRK 239 9 0.0006 0.0580 1.2000 2.8000 1.3000 1375 PSM YVILGGHR 371 8 1376

TABLE X Prostate A24 Supermotif Peptides with Binding Data Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids A*2401 No. PSM AFIDPLGL 674 8 1377 PSM AFLDELKAENI 60 11 1378 PSM AFTVQAAAETL 736 11 1379 PAP ALDVYNGL 299 8 1380 PAP ALDVYNGLL 299 9 1381 PAP ALFPPEGVSI 122 10 1382 PAP ALFPPEGVSIW 122 11 1383 Kallikrein ALGTTCYASGW 147 11 1384 PSA ALGTTCYASGW 143 11 1385 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVY 235 9 1386 PSA ALPERPSL 231 8 1387 PSA ALPERPSLY 231 9 1388 PSM ALVLAGGF 25 8 1389 PSM ALVLAGGFF 25 9 1390 PSM ALVLAGGFFL 25 10 1391 PSM ALVLAGGFFLL 25 11 1392 PAP AMTNLAAL 116 8 1393 PAP AMTNLAALP 116 9 0.0150 1394 PSM ATARRPRW 13 8 1395 PSM ATARRPRWL 13 9 1396 PAP ATEDTMTKL 227 9 1397 PAP ATLGKLSGL 189 9 1398 PSM ATNITPKHNM 49 10 1399 PAP ATQIPSYKKL 274 10 1400 PAP ATQIPSYKKLI 274 11 1401 PSM AVATARKPRW 11 10 1402 PSM AVATARRPRWL 11 11 1403 PSM AVEPDRYVI 365 9 1404 PSM AVEPDRYVIL 365 10 1405 PSM AVKNFTEI 635 8 1406 Kallikrein AVPLTQSRI 17 9 1407 PSM AVVHEIVRSF 393 10 1408 PSM AVVLRKYADKI 601 11 1409 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHY 241 9 1410 PSM AWGEVKRQI 724 9 1411 PSM AWGEVKRQIY 724 10 1412 PSM AYINADSSI 448 9 0.0190 1413 Kallikrein AYSEKVTEF 187 9 1414 Kallikrein AYSEKVTEFM 187 10 1415 Kallikrein AYSEKVTEFML 187 11 1416 PSA CIRNKSVI 62 8 1417 PSA CIRNKSVIL 62 9 1418 PSA CIRNKSVILL 62 10 1419 Kallikrein CLKKNSQVW 66 9 1420 Kallikrein CLKKNSQVWL 66 10 1421 Kallikrein CTGAVPLI 14 8 1422 PSM CTPLMYSL 466 8 1423 Kallikrein CVSLHLLSNDM 173 11 1424 Kallikrein CYASGWGSI 152 9 0.1700 1425 PSA CYASGWGSI 148 9 0.1700 1426 PSM DFDKSNPI 652 8 1427 PSM DFDKSNPIVL 652 10 1428 PSM DFEVFFQRL 520 9 1429 PSM DFEVFFQRLGI 520 11 1430 PSM DFFKLERDM 184 9 1431 PSM DFFKLERDMKI 184 11 1432 PAP DFIATLGKL 186 9 0.0002 1433 PSM DIVPPFSAF 156 9 1434 PAP DLFGIWSKVY 201 10 1435 PSA DLPTQEPAL 136 9 1436 Kallikrein DLVLSIAL 3 8 1437 PSM DMKINCSGKI 191 10 1438 PSA DMSLLKNRF 98 9 0.0001 1439 PSA DMSLLKNRFL 98 10 1440 Kallikrein DTCGGDSGGPL 207 11 1441 PAP DTFPTDPI SI 8 1442 PAP DTMTKLREL 230 9 1443 PAP DTTVSGLQM 290 9 1444 PAP DTTVSGLQMAL 290 11 1445 PAP DVDRTLMSAM 108 10 1446 Kallikrein DVVKVLGL 134 8 1447 PAP DVYNGLLPPY 301 10 1448 PSM DYAVVLRKY 599 9 1449 PSM DYFAPGVKSY 233 10 1450 PSM EFGLDSVEL 102 9 1451 PSM EFGLLGSTEW 425 10 1452 Kallikrein EFLRPRSL 164 8 1453 PSA EFLTPKKL 160 8 1454 Kallikrein EFMLCAGL 194 8 1455 Kallikrein EFMLCAGLW 194 9 1456 PAP EFQKRLHPY 176 9 1457 PSM EFSGMPRI 505 8 1458 PSM EFSGMPRISKL 505 11 1459 PSM EIASKFSERL 641 10 1460 PSM EIFNTSLF 137 8 1461 PSM EIVRSFGTL 397 9 1462 PSM ELAHYDVL 109 8 1463 PSM ELAHYDVLL 109 9 1464 PSM ELAHYDVLLSY 109 11 1465 PSM ELANSIYL 586 8 1466 PSM ELANSIVLPF 586 10 1467 PAP ELGEYIRKRY 80 10 1468 PSM ELKAENIKKF 64 10 1469 PSM ELKAENIKKFL 64 11 1470 PAP ELKFVTLVF 34 9 1471 PSM ELKSPDEGF 480 9 1472 PAP ELSELSLL 237 8 1473 PAP ELSELSLLSL 237 10 1474 PAP ELSELSLLSLY 237 11 1475 PAP ELSLLSLY 240 8 1476 PAP ELSLLSLYGI 240 10 1477 PSA ELTDAVKVM 127 9 1478 PSA ELTDAVKVMDL 127 11 1479 PSM ELVEKFYDPM 560 10 1480 PSM ELVEKFYDPMF 560 11 1481 PAP ELVGPVIPQDW 358 11 1482 PAP ELYFEKGEY 317 9 1483 PAP ELYFEKGEYF 317 10 1484 PSM EMKTYSVSF 621 9 0.0010 1485 PAP ETLKSEEF 170 8 1486 PSM ETNKFSGY 542 8 1487 PSM ETNKFSGYPL 542 10 1488 PSM ETNKFSGYPLY 542 11 1489 PAP ETQHEPYPL 334 9 1490 PAP ETQHEPYPLM 334 10 1491 PAP ETQHEPYPLML 334 11 1492 PSM ETYELVEKF 557 9 1493 PSM ETYELVEKFY 557 10 1494 PSM EVFFQRLGI 522 9 1495 PSM EVKRQIYVAAF 727 11 1496 PSM EVTRIYNVI 351 9 1497 PSM EWAEENSRL 433 9 1498 PSM EWAEENSRLL 433 10 1499 PSM EYAYRRGI 276 8 1500 PAP EYFVEMYY 324 8 1501 PAP EYIRKRYRKF 83 10 0.0067 1502 PAP EYIRKRYRKYL 83 11 1503 PSM FFKLERDM 185 8 1504 PSM FFKLERDMKI 185 10 1505 PSM FFLLGFLF 32 8 1506 PSM FFLLGFLFGW 32 10 0.0026 1507 PSM FFLLGFLFGWF 32 11 1508 PAP FFWLDRSVL 23 9 0.0017 1509 PAP FIATLGKL 187 8 1510 PAP FIATLGKLSGL 187 11 1511 PSM FIKSSNEATNI 42 11 1512 PSM FLDELKAENI 61 10 1513 PSM FLERAFIDPL 670 10 1514 PAP FLFLLFFW 18 8 1515 PAP FLFLLFFWL 18 9 1516 PAP FLFLLFFWL 33 9 1517 PSM FLLGFLFGWF 33 10 1518 PSM FLLGFLFGWFI 33 11 1519 PSA FLTLSVTW 3 8 1520 PSA FLTLSVTWI 3 9 1521 PSM FLYNFTQI 73 8 1522 PSM FLYNFTQIPHL 73 11 1523 Kallikrein FMLCAGLW 195 8 1524 PSA FMLCAGRW 191 8 1525 PSM FTEIASKF 639 8 1526 PSM FTVQAAAETL 737 10 1527 PAP FWLDRSVL 24 8 1528 PSM FYDPMFKY 565 8 1529 PSM FYDPMFKYHL 565 10 1.1000 1530 PSM GFEGKSLY 487 8 1531 PSM GFEGKSLYESW 487 11 1532 PSM GFFLLGFL 31 8 1533 PSM GFFLLGFLF 31 9 0.0190 1534 PSM GFFLLGFLFGW 31 11 1535 PAP GFGQLTQL 66 8 1536 PAP GFGQLTQLGM 66 10 1537 PSM GFLFGWFI 36 8 1538 PAP GFLFLLFF 17 8 1539 PAP GFLFLLFFW 17 9 0.0016 1540 PAP GFLFLLFFWL 17 10 0.0007 1541 PSM GIAEAVGL 282 8 1542 PSM GIAEAVGLPSI 282 11 1543 PSM GIASGRARY 529 9 1544 PAP GIHKQKEKSRL 248 11 1545 PAP GIWSKVYDPL 204 10 1546 PAP GIWSKVYDPLY 204 11 1547 PSM GIYDALFDI 707 9 1548 PSM GLDSVELAHY 104 10 1549 PAP GLHGQDLF 196 8 1550 PAP GLHGQDLFGI 196 10 1551 PAP GLHGQDLFGIW 196 11 1552 PSM GLLGSTEW 427 8 1553 PAP GLLPPYASCHL 305 11 1554 PSM GLPDRPFY 680 8 1555 PSM GLPSIPVHPI 288 10 1556 Kallikrein GLPTQEPAL 140 9 1557 PAP GLQMALDVY 295 9 1558 PAP GMEQHYEL 74 8 1559 PAP GMEQHYELGEY 74 11 1560 PSM GMPEGDLVY 168 9 1561 PSM GMPRISKL 508 8 1562 PSM GMVFELANSI 582 10 0.0002 1563 PSM GTEQNFQL 85 8 1564 PSM GTLKKEGW 403 8 1565 Kallikrein GTTCYASGW 149 9 1566 PSA GTTCYASGW 145 9 1567 PSM GVAYINADSSI 446 11 1568 PSM GVILYSDPADY 224 11 1569 PSM GVKSYPDGW 238 9 1570 PSM GVKSYPDGWNL 238 11 1571 Kallikrein GVLQGITSW 221 9 1572 PSA GVLQGITSW 217 9 1573 Kallikrein GVLVHPQW 52 8 1574 PSA GVLVHPQW 48 8 1575 Kallikrein GVLVHPQWVL 52 10 1576 PSA GVLVHPQWVL 48 10 1577 PAP GVLVNEIL 261 8 1578 PAP GVLVNEILNHM 261 11 1579 PSM GVQRGNIL 252 8 1580 PSM GVQRGNILNL 252 10 1581 PAP GVSIWNPI 128 8 1582 PAP GVSIWNPIL 128 9 1583 PAP GVSIWNPILL 128 10 1584 PAP GVSIWNPILLW 128 11 1585 Kallikrein GWAHCGGVL 46 9 1586 Kallikrein GWECEKHSQPW 28 11 1587 PSA GWECEKHSQPW 24 11 1588 Kallikrein GWGSIEPEEF 156 10 0.0001 1589 PSA GWGSIEPEEF 152 10 0.0001 1590 Kallikrein GWGSIEPEEFL 156 11 1591 PSA GWGSIEPEEFL 152 11 1592 PSM GWRPRRTI 409 8 1593 PSM GWRPRRTIL 409 9 1594 PSM GWRPRRTILF 409 10 0.0540 1595 PSM GYENVSDI 150 8 1596 PSM GYPANEYAY 271 9 1597 PSM GYPLYHSVY 548 9 1598 PSM GYYDAQKL 298 8 1599 PSM GYYDAQKLL 298 9 1600 PSM HIHSTNEVTRI 345 11 1601 PSM HLAGTEQNF 82 9 1602 PSM HLAGTEQNFQL 82 11 1603 PSM HLTVAQVRGGM 573 11 1604 PAP HMKRATQI 270 8 1605 PAP HMKRATQIPSY 270 11 1606 PAP HTVPLSEDQL 144 10 1607 PAP HTVPLSEDQLL 144 11 1608 PSM HYDVLLSY 112 8 1609 PAP HYELGEYI 78 8 1610 Kallikrein HYRKWIKDTI 248 10 0.0550 1611 PSA HYRKWIKDTI 244 10 0.0550 1612 PSM IINEDGNEI 130 9 1613 PSM IINEDGNEIF 130 10 1614 PSM ILFASWDAEEF 416 11 1615 PSM ILGGHRDSW 373 9 1616 PSM ILGGHRDSWVF 373 11 1617 PSA ILLGRHSL 69 8 1618 PSA ILLGRHSLF 69 9 1619 PAP ILNHMKRATQI 267 11 1620 PSM ILNLNGAGDPL 258 11 1621 PSA ILSRIVGGW 17 9 1622 PSM ILYSDPADY 226 9 1623 PSM ILYSDPADYF 226 10 1624 Kallikrein ITDVVKVL 132 8 1625 Kallikrein ITDVVKVLGL 132 10 1626 PSM ITPKHNMKAF 52 10 1627 PSM ITPKHNMKAFL 52 11 1628 Kallikrein ITSWGPEPCAL 226 11 1629 PSA ITSWGSEPCAL 222 11 1630 PSM IVIARYGKVF 200 10 1631 PSM IVLPFDCRDY 591 10 1632 PSM IVLRMMNDQL 659 10 1633 PSM IVLRMMNDQLM 659 11 1634 PSM IVPPFSAF 157 8 1635 PSM IVRSFGTL 398 8 1636 PAP IWNPILLW 131 8 1637 PAP IWNPILLWQPI 131 11 1638 PAP IWSKVYDPL 205 9 0.0024 1639 PAP IWSKVYDPLY 205 10 1640 PSM IYAPSSHNKY 691 10 1641 PSM IYDALFDI 708 8 1642 PSM IYNVIGTL 355 8 1643 PSM KFLYNFTQI 72 9 1644 PSA KFMLCAGRW 190 9 0.0310 1645 PSM KFSERLQDF 645 9 1646 PSM KFSGYPLY 545 8 1647 PSM KFYDPMFKY 564 9 1648 PSM KFYDPMFKYHL 564 11 1649 PSM KINCSGKI 193 8 1650 PSM KINCSGKIVI 193 10 1651 Kallikrein KITDVVKVL 131 9 1652 Kallikrein KITDVVKVLGL 131 11 1653 PSM KIVIARYGKVF 199 11 1654 PSM KLERDMKI 187 8 1655 PSM KLGSGNDF 514 8 1656 PSM KLGSGNDFEVF 514 11 1657 PSA KLQCVDLHVI 166 10 1658 PAP KLRELSEL 234 8 1659 PAP KLRELSELSL 234 10 1660 PAP KLRELSELSLL 234 11 1661 PAP KLSGLHGQDL 193 10 1662 PAP KLSGLHGQDLF 193 11 1663 PSM KTHPNYISI 122 9 1664 PSM KTHPNYISII 122 10 1665 PSM KTYSVSFDSL 623 10 1666 PSM KTYSVSFDSLF 623 11 1667 PSM KVDPSKAW 718 8 1668 PSM KVPYNVGPGF 324 10 1669 Kallikrein KVTEFMLCAGL 191 11 1670 Kallikrein KVVHYRKW 245 8 1671 PSA KVVHYRKW 241 8 1672 Kallikrein KVVHYRKWI 245 9 1673 PSA KVVHYRKWI 241 9 1674 PSM KYADKIYSI 606 9 12.0000 1675 PSM KYADKIYSISM 606 11 1676 PSM KYAGESFPGI 699 10 1677 PSM KYAGESFPGIY 699 11 1678 PSM LFASWDAEEF 417 10 1679 PSM LFEPPPPGY 143 9 1680 PAP LFFWLDRSVL 22 10 0.0045 1681 PAP LFGIWSKVY 202 9 1682 PSA LFRPEDTGQVF 76 11 1683 PAP LFLLFFWL 19 8 1684 PAP LFPPEGVSI 123 9 0.0033 1685 PAP LFPPEGVSIW 123 10 0.0140 1686 PSM LFSAVKNF 632 8 1687 PSM LFSAVKNFTEI 632 11 1688 PSA LILSRIVGGW 16 10 1689 Kallikrein LIQSRIVGGW 20 10 1690 PAP LLARAASL 7 8 1691 PAP LLARAASLSL 7 10 1692 PAP LLFFWLDRSVL 21 11 1693 PSM LLGFLFGW 34 8 1694 PSM LLGFLFGWF 34 9 1695 PSM LLGFLFGWFI 34 10 1696 PSA LLGRHSLF 70 8 1697 PAP LLLARAASL 6 9 1698 PAP LLLARAASLSL 6 11 1699 PAP LLPPYASCHL 306 10 1700 PSM LLQERGVAY 441 9 1701 PSM LLQERGVAYI 441 10 1702 PSA LLRLSEPAEL 119 10 1703 Kallikrein LLRLSEPAKT 123 10 1704 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARAY 178 11 1705 PSM LMFLERAF 668 8 1706 PSM LMFLERAFI 668 9 0.0075 1707 PAP LMSAMTNL 113 8 1708 PAP LMSAMTNLAAL 113 11 1709 PSM LMYSLVHNL 469 9 1710 PSA LTDAVKVM 128 8 1711 PSA LTDAVKVMDL 128 10 1712 PAP LTELYFEKGEY 315 11 1713 PSA LTLSVTWI 4 8 1714 PSM LTPGYPANEY 268 10 1715 PSA LTPKKLQCVDL 162 11 1716 PAP LTQLGMEQHY 70 10 0.0022 1717 PSM LTVAQVRGGM 574 10 1718 Kallikrein LVCNGVLQGI 217 10 1719 PSA LVCNGVLQGI 213 10 1720 PSM LVEKFYDPM 561 9 1721 PSM LVEKEYDPMF 561 10 1722 PAP LVFRHGDRSPI 40 11 1723 PAP LVGPVIPQDW 359 10 1724 PSM LVHNLTKEL 473 9 1725 Kallikrein LVHPQWVL 54 8 1726 PSA LVHPQWVL 50 8 1727 PSM LVLAGGFF 26 8 1728 PSM LVLAGGFFL 26 9 1729 PSM LVLAGGFFLL 26 10 1730 PAP LVNETLNHM 263 9 1731 PAP LYCESVHNF 213 9 0.4400 1732 PAP LYCESVHNFTL 213 11 1733 PSA LYDMSLLKNRF 96 11 0.1200 1734 PAP LYFEKGEY 318 8 1735 PAP LYFEKGEYF 318 9 2.5000 1736 PSM LYHSVYETY 551 9 1737 PSM LVHSVYETYEL 551 11 1738 PAP LYLPFRNCPRF 154 11 1739 PSM LYNFTQIPHL 74 10 0.2300 1740 PSM LYSDPADY 227 8 1741 PSM LYSDPADYF 227 9 0.4400 1742 PSA LYTKVVHY 238 8 1743 PSA LYTKVVHYRKW 238 11 1744 PSM MFLERAFI 669 8 1745 PSM MFLERAFIDPL 669 11 1746 PSA MLLRLSEPAEL 118 11 1747 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPAKI 122 11 1748 PAP MLPGCSPSCPL 343 11 1749 PSM MMNDQLMF 663 8 1750 PSM MMNDQLMFL 663 9 1751 PAP MTKLRELSEL 232 10 1752 PAP MTNLAALF 117 8 1753 PSM MVFELANSI 583 9 1754 PSM MVFELANSIVL 583 11 1755 Kallikrein MWDLVLSI 1 8 1756 Kallikrein MWDLVLSIAL 1 10 1757 PSM MYSLVHNL 470 8 1758 PSM NFQLAKQI 89 8 1759 PSM NFSTQKVKM 336 9 1760 PSM NFSTQKVKMHI 336 11 1761 PSM NFTEIASKF 638 9 0.0001 1762 PSM NFTQIPHL 76 8 1763 PSM NIKKFLYNF 69 9 1764 PSM NITPKHNM 51 8 1765 PSM NITPKHNMKAF 51 11 1766 PSM NLNGAGDPL 260 9 1767 PSM NMKAFLDEL 57 9 1768 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSL 102 10 1769 PSM NVGPGFTGNF 328 10 1770 PSM NVSDIVPPF 153 9 1771 PSM NWETNKFSGY 540 10 1772 PSM NYARTEDE 178 8 1773 PSM NYARTEDEF 178 9 0.7700 1774 PSM NYARTEDFFKL 178 11 1775 PSM NYTLRVDCTPL 459 11 1776 PSM PFDCRDYAVVL 594 11 1777 PAP PFRNCPRF 157 8 1778 PAP PFRNCPRFQEL 157 11 1779 PSM PFSAFSPQGM 160 10 1780 PSM PFYRHVIY 685 8 1781 PAP PIDTFPTDPI 49 10 1782 PSM PIGYYDAQKL 296 10 1783 PSM PIGYYDAQKLL 296 11 1784 PAP PIKESSWPQGF 57 11 1785 PAP PILLWQPI 134 8 1786 PAP PIPVHTVPL 140 9 1787 PSM PIVLRMMNDQL 658 11 1788 PAP PLERFAEL 352 8 1789 PSM PLGLPDRPF 678 9 1790 PSM PLGLPDRPFY 678 10 1791 PSA PLILSRIVGGW 15 11 1792 Kallikrein PLIQSRIVGGW 19 11 1793 PAP PLLLARAASL 5 10 1794 PSM PLMYSLVHNL 468 10 1795 PAP PLSEDQLL 147 8 1796 PAP PLSEDQLLY 147 9 1797 PAP PLSEDQLLYL 147 10 1798 PSM PLTPGYPANEY 267 11 1799 Kallikrein PLVCNGVL 216 8 1800 PSA PLVCNGVL 212 8 1801 Kallikrein PLVCNGVLQGI 216 11 1802 PSA PLVCNGVLQGI 212 11 1803 PAP PLYCESVHNF 212 10 1804 PSA PLYDMSLL 95 8 1805 PSM PLYHSVYETY 550 10 1806 Kallikrein PLYNMSLL 99 8 1807 PAP PTDPIKESSW 54 10 1808 PSM PVHPIGYY 293 8 1809 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPL 91 10 1810 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPLY 91 11 1811 Kallikrein PWQVAVYSHGW 37 11 1812 PAP PYASCHLTEL 309 10 0.0240 1813 PAP PYASCHLTELY 309 11 1814 PAP PYKDFIATL 183 9 0.1100 1815 PSM PYNVGPGF 326 8 1816 PAP QIPSYKKL 276 8 1817 PAP QIPSYKKLI 276 9 1818 PAP QIPSYKKLIM 276 10 1819 PAP QIPSYKKLIMY 276 11 1820 PSM QIQSQWKEF 95 9 1821 PSM QIQSQWKEFGL 95 11 1822 PSM QLAGAKGVI 218 9 1823 PSM QLAGAKGVIL 218 10 1824 PSM QLAGAKGVILY 218 11 1825 PSM QLAKQIQSQW 91 10 1826 PAP QLGMEQHY 72 8 1827 PAP QLGMEQHYEL 72 10 1828 PSM QLMFLERAF 667 9 1829 PSM QLMFLERAFI 667 10 1830 PAP QLTQLGMEQHY 69 11 1831 PAP QMALDVYNGL 297 10 0.0001 1832 PAP QMALDVYNGLL 297 11 1833 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGW 39 9 1834 PSA QVFQVSHSF 84 9 1835 PSA QVHPQKVTKF 182 10 1836 PSA QVHPQKVTKFM 182 11 1837 PSM QVRGGMVF 578 8 1838 PSM QVRGGMVFEL 578 10 1839 PSA QVSHSFPHPL 87 10 1840 PSA QVSHSFPHPLY 87 11 1841 Kallikrein QVWLGRHNL 72 9 1842 Kallikrein QVWLGRFINLF 72 10 1843 PSA QWVLTAAHCI 54 10 0.0007 1844 Kallikrein QWVLTAAHCL 58 10 1845 PAP RFAELVGPVI 355 10 0.0037 1846 PAP RFQELESETL 163 10 0.0001 1847 PSM RISKLGSGNDF 511 11 1848 PSM RIYNVIGTL 354 9 1849 PSM RLGIASGRARY 527 11 1850 PAP RLHPYKDF 180 8 1851 PAP RLHPYKDFI 180 9 1852 PSM RLLQERGVAY 440 10 1853 PSM RLLQERGVAYI 440 11 1854 PSM RLQDFDKSNPI 649 11 1855 PAP RLQGGVLVNEI 257 11 1856 PSA RLSEPAEL 121 8 1857 Kallikrein RLSEPAKI 125 8 1858 PSM RMMNDQLM 662 8 1859 PSM RMMNDQLMF 662 9 1860 PSM RMMNDQLMFL 662 10 1861 PSM RTEDFFKL 181 8 1862 PSM RTILFASW 414 8 1863 PAP RTLMSAMTNL 111 10 1864 PSM RVDCTPLM 463 8 1865 PSM RVDCTPLMY 463 9 1866 PSM RVDCTPLMYSL 463 11 1867 Kallikrein RVPVSHSF 89 8 1868 PSM RWLCAGAL 19 8 1869 PSM RWLCAGALVL 19 10 1870 PAP RYRKFLNESY 88 10 0.0057 1871 PSM RYTKNWETNKF 536 11 1872 PSM SFGTLKKEGW 401 10 1873 PSM SFPGIYDAL 704 9 1874 PSM SFPGIYDALF 704 10 1875 PSA SFPHPLYDM 91 9 0.0007 1876 PSA SFPHPLYDMSL 91 11 1877 Kallikrein SFPHPLYNM 95 9 1878 Kallikrein SFPHPLYNMSL 95 11 1879 PSM SIEGNYTL 455 8 1880 Kallikrein SIEPEEFL 159 8 1881 PSA SIEPEEFL 155 8 1882 PSM SIINEDGNEI 129 10 1883 PSM SIINEDGNEIF 129 11 1884 PSM SIPVHPIGY 291 9 1885 PSM SIPVHPIGYY 291 10 1886 PSM SISMKHPQEM 613 10 1887 PSM SIVLPFDCRDY 590 11 1888 PAP SIWNPILL 130 8 1889 PAP SIWNPILLW 130 9 1890 PSM SLFEPPPPGY 142 10 1891 PSM SLFSAVKNF 631 9 1892 PAP SLGFLFLL 15 8 1893 PAP SLGFLFLLF 15 9 1894 PAP SLGFLPLLFF 15 10 1895 PAP SLGFLFLLFFW 15 11 1896 Kallikrein SLHLLSNDM 175 9 1897 Kallikrein SLLKHQSL 104 8 1898 PSA SLLKNRFL 100 8 1899 PAP SLLSLYGI 242 8 1900 Kallikrein SLQCVSLHL 170 9 1901 Kallikrein SLQCVSLHLL 170 10 1902 PAP SLSLGFLF 13 8 1903 PAP SLSLGFLFL 13 9 1904 PAP SLSLGFLFLL 13 10 1905 PAP SLSLGFLFLLF 13 11 1906 PSM SLVHNLTKEL 472 10 1907 PSA SLYTKVVHY 237 9 1908 PSM SMKHPQEM 615 8 1909 PSM SMKHPQEMKTY 615 11 1910 PSA STCSGDSGGPL 203 11 1911 PAP STDVDRTL 106 8 1912 PAP STDVDRTLM 106 9 1913 PSM STEWAEENSRL 431 11 1914 PSM STNEVTRI 348 8 1915 PSM STNEVTRIY 348 9 1916 PSM STQKVKMHI 338 9 1917 PSM SVELAHYDVL 107 10 1918 PSM SVELAHYDVLL 107 11 1919 Kallikrein SVGCTGAVPL 11 10 1920 Kallikrein SVGCTGAVPLI 11 11 1921 PAP SVHNFTLPSW 217 10 1922 PSA SVILLGRHSL 67 10 1923 PSA SVILLGRHSLF 67 11 1924 PAP SVLAKELKF 29 9 1925 PSM SVSFDSLF 626 8 1926 PSA SVTWIGAAPL 7 10 1927 PSA SVTWIGAAPLI 7 11 1928 PSM SVYETYEL 554 8 1929 PAP SWATEDTM 225 8 1930 PAP SWATEDTMTKL 225 11 1931 PSM SWDAEEFGL 420 9 1932 PSM SWDAEEFGLL 420 10 1933 Kallikrein SWGPEPCAL 228 9 1934 PSA SWGSEPCAL 224 9 0.0001 1935 PAP SWPQGFGQL 62 9 0.0013 1936 PSM SWRGSLKVPY 318 10 1937 PSM SWTKKSPSPEF 496 11 1938 PAP SYKHEQVY 96 8 1939 PAP SYKHEQVYI 96 9 0.2600 1940 PAP SYKKLIMY 279 8 1941 PSM SYPDGWNL 241 8 1942 PSM SYPNKTHPNY 118 10 1943 PSM SYPNKTHPNYI 118 11 1944 PAP TLGKLSGL 190 8 1945 PAP TLKSEEFQKRL 171 11 1946 PAP TLMSAMTNL 112 9 1947 PAP TLPSWATEDTM 222 11 1948 PSM TLRGAVEPDRY 361 11 1949 PSM TLRVDCTPL 461 9 1950 PSM TLRVDCTPLM 461 10 1951 PSM TLRVDCTPLMY 461 11 1952 PAP TMTKLREL 231 8 1953 PAP TMTKLRELSEL 231 11 1954 Kallikrein TTCYASGW 150 8 1955 PSA TTCYASGW 146 8 1956 Kallikrein TTCYASGWGSI 150 11 1957 PSA TTCYASGWGSI 146 11 1958 PAP TTVSGLQM 291 8 1959 PAP TTVSGLQMAL 291 10 1960 PSM TVAQVRGGM 575 9 1961 PSM TVAQVRGGMVF 575 11 1962 PAP TVPLSEDQL 145 9 1963 PAP TVPLSEDQLL 145 10 1964 PAP TVPLSEDQLLY 145 11 1965 PSM TVQAAAETL 738 9 1966 PAP TVSGLQMAL 292 9 1967 PSA TWIGAAPL 9 8 1968 PSA TWIGAAPLI 9 9 0.1100 1969 PSA TWIGAAPLIL 9 10 0.3600 1970 PSM TYELVEKF 558 8 1971 PSM TYELVEKFY 558 9 1972 PSM TYSVSFDSL 624 9 1973 PSM TYSVSFDSLF 624 10 3.2000 1974 PSM VFELANSI 584 8 1975 PSM VFELANSIVL 584 10 1976 PSM VFFQRLGI 523 8 1977 PSA VFLTLSVTW 2 9 2.1000 1978 PSA VFLTLSVTWI 2 10 0.0062 1979 PSA VFQVSHSF 85 8 1980 PAP VFRHGDRSPI 41 10 0.0005 1981 PSM VIARYGKVF 201 9 1982 PSM VILGGHRDSW 372 10 1983 PSA VILLGRHSL 68 9 1984 PSA VILLGRHSLF 68 10 1985 PSM VILYSDPADY 225 10 1986 PSM VILYSDPADYF 225 11 1987 PAP VIPQDWSTECM 363 11 1988 PSM VIYAPSSHNKY 690 11 1989 PSM VLAGGFFL 27 8 1990 PSM VLAGGFFLL 27 9 1991 PSM VLAGGFFLLGF 27 11 1992 PAP VLAKELKF 30 8 1993 PAP VLAKELKFVTL 30 11 1994 Kallikrein VLGLPTQEPAL 138 11 1995 PSM VLPFDCRDY 592 9 1996 Kallikrein VLQGITSW 222 8 1997 PSA VLQGITSW 218 8 1998 PSM VLRKYADKI 603 9 1999 PSM VLRKYADKIY 603 10 2000 PSM VLRMMNDQL 660 9 2001 PSM VLRMMNDQLM 660 10 2002 PSM VLRMMNDQLMF 660 11 2003 PSA VLTAAHCI 56 8 2004 Kallikrein VLTAAHCL 60 8 2005 Kallikrein VLVHPQWVL 53 9 2006 PSA VLVHPQWVL 49 9 2007 PAP VLVNEILNHM 262 10 2008 PSA VMDLPTQEPAL 134 11 2009 Kallikrein VTEFMLCAGL 192 10 2010 Kallikrein VTEFMLCAGLW 192 11 2011 PSA VTKFMLCAGRW 188 11 2012 PSM VTRIYNVI 352 8 2013 PSM VTRIYNVIGTL 352 11 2014 PSA VTWIGAAPL 8 9 2015 PSA VTWIGAAPLI 8 10 2016 PSA VTWIGAAPLIL 8 11 2017 PSA VVFLTLSVTW 1 10 2018 PSA VVFLTLSVTWI 1 11 2019 PSM VVHEIVRSF 394 9 2020 Kallikrein VVHYRKWI 246 8 2021 PSA VVHYRKWI 242 8 2022 PSM VVLRKYADKI 602 10 2023 PSM VVLRKYADKIY 602 11 2024 Kallikrein VWLGRHNL 73 8 2025 Kallikrein VWLGRHNLF 73 9 2026 PSM VYETYELVEKF 555 11 2027 PAP VYNGLLPPY 302 9 0.0320 2028 Kallikrein VYTKVVHY 242 8 2029 Kallikrein VYTKVVHYRKW 242 11 2030 PSM VYVNYARTEDF 175 11 2031 PSA WIGAAPLI 10 8 2032 PSA WIGAAPLIL 10 9 2033 PSM WLCAGALVL 20 9 2034 PAP WLDRSVLAKEL 25 11 2035 Kallikrein WLGRHNLF 74 8 2036 PSM WTKKSPSPEF 497 10 2037 PSA WVLTAAHCI 55 9 2038 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCL 59 9 2039 PSM YFAPGVKSY 234 9 2040 PAP YFEKGEYF 319 8 2041 PAP YFEKGEYFVEM 319 11 2042 PSM YINADSSI 449 8 2043 PAP YIRKRYRKF 84 9 2044 PAP YIRKRYRKFL 84 10 2045 PAP YIRSTDVDRTL 103 11 2046 PAP YLPPRNCPRF 155 10 2047 PSM YTKNWETNKF 537 10 2048 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRKW 243 10 2049 PSA YTKVVHYRKW 239 10 2050 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRKWI 243 11 2051 PSA YTKVVHYRKWI 239 11 2052 PSM YTLRVDCTPL 460 10 2053 PSM YTLRVDCTPLM 460 11 2054 PSM YVILGGHRDSW 371 11 2055 PSM YVNYARTEDF 176 10 2056 PSM YVNYARTEDFF 176 11 2057 PSM YYDAQKLL 299 8 2058 PSM YYDAQKLLEKM 299 11 2059 PAP YYRNETQHEPY 330 11 2060

TABLE X1 Prostate B07 Supermotif Peptides with Binding Data Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids B*0702 No. PSM APGVKSYPDGW 236 11 2061 PSA APLILSRI 14 8 2062 PSA APLILSRIV 14 9 0.0007 2063 PAP APLLLARA 4 8 2064 PAP APLLLARAA 4 9 0.0210 2065 PAP APLLLARAASL 4 11 2066 PSM APPDSSWRGSL 313 11 2067 PSM APSSHNKY 693 8 2068 PSM APSSHNKYA 693 9 0.0003 2069 PAP CPLERFAEL 351 9 0.0810 2070 PAP CPLERFAELV 351 10 0.0054 2071 PSM DPADYFAPGV 230 10 0.0002 2072 PAP DPIKESSW 56 8 2073 PSM DPLGLPDRPF 677 10 0.0001 2074 PSM DPLGLPDRPFY 677 11 2075 PSM DPLTPGYPA 266 9 0.0001 2076 PAP DPLYCESV 211 8 2077 PAP DPLYCESVHNF 211 11 2078 PSM DPMFKYHL 567 8 2079 PSM DPMFKYHLTV 567 10 0.0001 2080 PSM DPMFKYHLTVA 567 11 2081 PSM DPQSGAAV 387 8 2082 PSM DPQSGAAVV 387 9 0.0011 2083 PSM DPSKAWGEV 720 9 0.0002 2084 PSA EPAELTDA 124 8 2085 PSA EPAELTDAV 124 9 0.0001 2086 PSA EPAELTDAVKV 124 11 2087 Kallikrein EPAKITDV 128 8 2088 Kallikrein EPAKITDVV 128 9 2089 Kallikrein EPAKITDVVKV 128 11 2090 Kallikrein EPALGTTCY 145 9 2091 PSA EPALGTTCY 141 9 2092 Kallikrein EPALGTTCYA 145 10 0.0002 2093 PSA EPALGTTCYA 141 10 0.0002 2094 Kallikrein EPCALPEKPA 232 10 2095 Kallikrein EPCALPEKPAV 232 11 2096 PSA EPCALPERPSL 228 11 2097 PSM EPDRYVIL 367 8 2098 Kallikrein EPEDTGQRV 82 9 2099 Kallikrein EPEDTGQRVPV 82 11 2100 Kallikrein EPEEFLRPRSL 161 11 2101 PSA EPEEFLTPKKL 157 11 2102 PSM EPPPPGYENV 145 10 0.0001 2103 PSM FPGIYDAL 705 8 2104 PSM FPGIYDALF 705 9 0.0013 2105 PSM FPGIYDALFDI 705 11 2106 PSA FPHPLYDM 92 8 2107 PSA FPHPLYDMSL 92 10 1.1000 2108 PSA FPHPLYDMSLL 92 11 2109 Kallikrein FPHPLYNM 96 8 2110 Kallikrein FPHPLYNMSL 96 10 2111 Kallikrein FPHPLYNMSLL 96 11 2112 PAP FPPEGVSI 124 8 2113 PAP FPPEGVSIW 124 9 0.0001 2114 PAP FPTDPIKESSW 53 11 2115 PSM GPGFTGNF 330 8 2116 Kallikrein GPLVCNGV 215 8 2117 PSA GPLVCNGV 211 8 2118 Kallikrein GPLVCNGVL 215 9 0.0280 2119 PSA GPLVCNGVL 211 9 0.0280 2120 PAP GPVIPQDW 361 8 2121 PSA HPEDTGQV 78 8 2122 PSA HPEDTGQVF 78 9 0.0006 2123 PSA HPEDTGQVFQV 78 11 2124 PSM HPIGYYDA 295 8 2125 PSM HPIGYYDAQKL 295 11 2126 PSA HPLYDMSL 94 8 2127 PSA HPLYDMSLL 94 9 0.0018 2128 Kallikrein HPLYNMSL 98 8 2129 Kallikrein HPLYNMSLL 98 9 2130 PSM HPNYISII 124 8 2131 PSM HPQEMKTY 618 8 2132 PSM HPQEMKTYSV 618 10 0.0003 2133 PSA HPQKVTKF 184 8 2134 PSA HPQKVTKYM 184 9 0.1700 2135 PSA HPQKVTKFML 184 10 0.0230 2136 Kallikrein HPQWVLTA 56 8 2137 PSA HPQWVLTA 52 8 2138 Kallikrein HPQWVLTAA 56 9 0.0240 2139 PSA HPQWVLTAA 52 9 0.0240 2140 PAP HPYKDFIA 182 8 2141 PAP HPYKDFIATL 182 10 0.0150 2142 PSM IPHLAGTEQNF 80 11 2143 PAP IPQDWSTECM 364 10 0.0019 2144 PAP IPSYKKLI 277 8 2145 PAP IPSYKKLIM 277 9 5.8000 2146 PAP IPSYKKLIMY 277 10 2147 PSM IPVHPIGY 292 8 2148 PSM IPVHPIGYY 292 9 0.0007 2149 PSM IPVHPIGYYDA 292 11 2150 PAP IPVHTVPL 141 8 2151 Kallikrein KPAVYTKV 239 8 2152 Kallikrein KPAVYTKVV 239 9 2153 Kallikrein KPAVYTKVVHY 239 11 2154 PSM LPDRPFYRHV 681 10 0.0007 2155 PSM LPDRPFYRHVI 681 11 2156 Kallikrein LPEKPAVY 236 8 2157 Kallikrein LPEKPAVYTKV 236 11 2158 PSA LPERPSLY 232 8 2159 PSA LPERPSLYTKV 232 11 2160 PSM LPFDCRDY 593 8 2161 PSM LPFDCRDYA 593 9 0.0011 2162 PSM LPFDCRDYAV 593 10 0.0150 2163 PSM LPFDCRDYAVV 593 11 2164 PAP LPFRNCPRF 156 9 0.0049 2165 PAP LPGCSPSCPL 344 10 0.0360 2166 PSM LPGGGVQRGNI 248 11 2167 PAP LPPYASCHL 307 9 0.0029 2168 PSM LPSIPVHPI 289 9 0.0790 2169 PSM LPSIPVHPIGY 289 11 2170 PAP LPSWATEDTM 223 10 0.0032 2171 Kallikrein LPTQEPAL 141 8 2172 PSA LPTQEPAL 137 8 2173 PSM MPEGDLVY 169 8 2174 PSM MPEGDLVYV 169 9 0.0001 2175 PSM MPEGDLVYVNY 169 11 2176 PAP NPILLWQPI 133 9 0.0026 2177 PAP NPILLWQPIPV 133 11 2178 PSM NPIVLRMM 657 8 2179 PSM PPDSSWRGSL 314 10 0.0012 2180 PAP PPEGVSIW 125 8 2181 PAP PPEGVSIWNPI 125 11 2182 PSM PPFSAFSPQGM 159 11 2183 PSM PPGYENVSDI 148 10 0.0001 2184 PSM PPGYENVSDIV 148 11 2185 PSM PPPGYENV 147 8 2186 PSM PPPGYENVSDI 147 11 2187 PSM PPPPGYENV 146 9 0.0001 2188 PAP PPYASCHL 308 8 2189 PAP PPYASCHLTEL 308 11 2190 PAP QPIPVHTV 139 8 2191 PAP QPIPVHTVPL 139 10 0.2400 2192 Kallikrein QPWQVAVY 36 8 2193 PSA QPWQVLVA 32 8 2194 Kallikrein RPDEDSSHDL 112 10 2195 Kallikrein RPDEDSSHDLM 112 11 2196 PSM RPFYRHVI 684 8 2197 PSM RPFYRHVIY 684 9 0.4700 2198 PSM RPFYRHVIYA 684 10 0.7200 2199 PSA RPGDDSSHDL 108 10 0.0117 2200 PSA RPGDDSSHDLM 108 11 2201 PSM RPRRTILF 411 8 2202 PSM RPRRTILFA 411 9 0.7800 2203 PSM RPRRTILFASW 411 11 2204 Kallikrein RPRSLQCV 167 8 2205 Kallikrein RPRSLQCVSL 167 10 2206 PSM RPRWLCAGA 17 9 0.3200 2207 PSM RPRWLCAGAL 17 10 5.2000 2208 PSM RPRWLCAGALV 17 11 2209 PSA RPSLYTKV 235 8 2210 PSA RPSLYTKVV 235 9 2211 PSA RPSLYTKVVHY 235 11 2212 PSM SPDEGFEGKSL 483 11 2213 PSM SPEFSGMPRI 503 10 0.0020 2214 PSA SPIDTFPTDPI 48 11 2215 PSM SPQGMPEGDL 165 10 0.0002 2216 PSM SPQGMPEGDLV 165 11 2217 PSA SPSGPLERF 348 9 0.0066 2218 PSA SPSCPLERFA 348 10 0.0002 2219 PSM SPSPEFSGM 501 9 0.0025 2220 PSM TPGYPANEY 269 9 0.0012 2221 PSM TPGYPANEYA 269 10 0.0001 2222 PSM TPGYPANEYAY 269 11 2223 PSM TPKHNMKA 53 8 2224 PSM TPKHNMKAF 53 9 0.0990 2225 PSM TPKHNMKAFL 53 10 0.0200 2226 PSA TPKKLQCV 163 8 2227 PSA TPKKLQCVDL 163 10 0.0006 2228 PSM TPLMYSLV 467 8 2229 PSM TPLMYSLVHNL 467 11 2230 Kallikrein VPLIQSRI 18 8 2231 Kallikrein VPLIQSRIV 18 9 2232 PSA VPLSEDQL 146 8 2233 PSA VPLSEDQLL 146 9 0.0002 2234 PSA VPLSEDQLLY 146 10 0.0011 2235 PSA VPLSEDQLLYL 146 11 2236 Kallikrein VPVSHSFPHPL 90 11 2237 PSM VPYNVGPGF 325 9 0.0039 2238 PSA WPQGFGQL 63 8 2239 PSA WPQGFGQLTQL 63 11 2240 PSM YPANEYAY 272 8 2241 PSM YPLYHSVY 549 8 2242 PSM YPLYHSVYETY 549 11 2243 PSM YPNKTHPNY 119 9 0.0001 2244 PSM YPNKTHPNYI 119 10 0.0035 2245

TABLE XII Prostate B27 Supermotif with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids No. Kallikrein AHCGGVLV 48 8 2246 PSA AHCIRNKSV 60 9 2247 PSA AHCIRNKSVI 60 10 2248 PSA AHCIRNKSVIL 60 11 2249 Kallikrein AHCLKKNSQV 64 10 2250 Kallikrein AHCLKKNSQVW 64 11 2251 PAP AHDITVSGL 288 9 2252 PAP AHDTTVSGLQM 288 11 2253 PSM AHYDVLLSY 111 9 2254 PAP AKELKFVTL 32 9 2255 PAP AKELKFVTLV 32 10 2256 PAP AKELKFVTLVF 32 11 2257 PSM AKGVILYSDPA 222 11 2258 Kallikrein AKTTDVVKV 130 9 2259 Kallikrein AKITDVVKVL 130 10 2260 PSM AKQIQSQW 93 8 2261 PSM AKQIQSQWKEF 93 11 2262 PAP ARAASLSL 9 8 2263 PAP ARAASLSLGF 9 10 2264 PAP ARAASLSLGFL 9 11 2265 Kallikrein ARAYSEKV 185 8 2266 Kallikrein ARAYSEKVTEF 185 11 2267 PSM ARRPRWLCA 15 9 2268 PSM ARRPRWLCAGA 15 11 2269 PSM ARTEDFFKL 180 9 2270 PAP CHLTELYF 313 8 2271 PSM CRDYAVVL 597 8 2272 PSM CRDYAVVLRKY 597 11 2273 PSM DKIYSISM 609 8 2274 PSM DKSNPIVL 654 8 2275 PSM DKSNPIVLRM 654 10 2276 PSM DKSNPIVLRMM 654 11 2277 PSM DRPFYRHV 683 8 2278 PSM DRPFYRHVI 683 9 2279 PSM DRPFYRHVIY 683 10 2280 PSM DRPFYRHVIYA 683 11 2281 PAP DRSPIDTF 46 8 2282 PAP DRSVLAKEL 27 9 2283 PAP DRSVLAKELKF 27 11 2284 PAP DRTLMSAM 110 8 2285 PAP DRTLMSAMTNL 110 11 2286 PSM EKFYDPMF 563 8 2287 PSM EKFYDPMFKY 563 10 2288 PAP EKGEYFVEM 321 9 2289 PAP EKGEYFVEMY 321 10 2290 PAP EKGEYFVEMYY 321 11 2291 Kallikrein EKHSQPWQV 32 9 2292 PSA EKHSQPWQV 28 9 2293 Kallikrein EKHSQPWQVA 32 10 2294 Kallikrein EKHSQPWQVAV 32 11 2295 PSA EKHSQPWQVL 28 10 2296 PSA EKHSQPWQVLV 28 11 2297 Kallikrein EKPAVYTKV 238 9 2298 Kallikrein EKPAVYTKVV 238 10 2299 PAP EKSRLQGGV 254 9 2300 PAP EKSRLQGGVL 254 10 2301 PAP EKSRLQGGVLV 254 11 2302 Kallikrein EKVTEFML 190 8 2303 Kallikrein EKVTEFMLCA 190 10 2304 PSM ERAFIDPL 672 8 2305 PSM ERAFIDPLGL 672 10 2306 PAP ERFAELVGPV 354 10 2307 PAP ERFAELVGPVI 354 11 2308 PSM ERGVAYINA 444 9 2309 PSA ERPSLYTKV 234 9 2310 PSA ERPSLYTKVV 234 10 2311 PSA FHPEDTGQV 77 9 2312 PSA FHPEDTGQVF 77 10 2313 PSM FKLERDMKI 186 9 2314 PSM FKYHLTVA 570 8 2315 PSM FKYIALTVAQV 570 10 2316 PSM FRGNKVKNA 209 9 2317 PSM FRGNKVKNAQL 209 11 2318 PAP FRHGDRSPI 42 9 2319 PAP FRNCPRFQEL 158 10 2320 PSM GHRDSWVF 376 8 2321 PSM GHRDSWVFGGI 376 11 2322 PSM GKIVIARY 198 8 2323 PSM GKIVIARYGKV 198 11 2324 PAP GKLSGLHGQDL 192 11 2325 PSM GKSLYESW 490 8 2326 PSM GKVFRGNKV 206 9 2327 PSM GRARYTKNW 533 9 2328 PSA GRAVCGGV 42 8 2329 PSA GRAVCGGVL 42 9 2330 PSA GRAVGGGVLV 42 10 2331 PAP HKQKEKSRL 250 9 2332 PSM HRDSWVFGGI 377 10 2333 PAP IHKQKEKSRL 249 10 2334 PSM IHSTNEVTRI 346 10 2335 PSM IHSTNEVTRIY 346 11 2336 PAP IKESSWPQGF 58 10 2337 PSM IKKFLYNF 70 8 2338 PSM IKKFLYNFTQI 70 11 2339 PSM IKSSNEATNI 43 10 2340 PAP IRKRYRKF 85 8 2341 PAP IRKRYRKFL 85 9 2342 PSA IRNKSVIL 63 8 2343 PSA IRNKSVILL 63 9 2344 PAP IRSTDVDRTL 104 10 2345 PAP IRSTDVDRTLM 104 11 2346 PSM KHNMKAFL 55 8 2347 PSM KHNMKAFLDEL 55 11 2348 PSM KHPQEMKTY 617 9 2349 PSM KHPQEMKTYSV 617 11 2350 Kallikrein KHSQPWQV 33 8 2351 PSA KHSQPWQV 29 8 2352 Kallikrein KHSQPWQVA 33 9 2353 Kallikrein KHSQPWQVAV 33 10 2354 Kallikrein KHSQPWQVAVY 33 11 2355 PSA KHSQPWQVL 29 9 2356 PSA KHSQPWQVLV 29 10 2357 PSA KHSQPWQVLVA 29 11 2358 PSM KKEGWRPRRTI 406 11 2359 PSM KKFLYNFTQI 71 10 2360 PAP KKLIMYSA 281 8 2361 PSA KKLQCVDL 165 8 2362 PSA KKLQCVDLHV 165 10 2363 PSA KKLQCVDLHVI 165 11 2364 Kallikrein KKNSQVWL 68 8 2365 PSM KKSPSPEF 499 8 2366 PSM KKSPSPEFSGM 499 11 2367 PAP KRATQIPSY 272 9 2368 PAP KRLHPYKDF 179 9 2369 PAP KRLHPYKDFI 179 10 2370 PAP KRLHPYKDFIA 179 11 2371 PSM KRQIYVAA 729 8 2372 PSM KRQIYVAAF 729 9 2373 PSM KRQIYVAAFTV 729 11 2374 PAP KRYRKFLNESY 87 11 2375 PSM LHETDSAV 5 8 2376 PSM LHETDSAVA 5 9 2377 PSM LHETDSAVATA 5 11 2378 PAP LHGQDLFGI 197 9 2379 PAP LHGQDLFGIW 197 10 2380 Kallikrein LHLLSNDM 176 8 2381 Kallikrein LHLLSNDMCA 176 10 2382 PAP LHPYKDFI 181 8 2383 PAP LHPYKDFIA 181 9 2384 PAP LHPYKDFIATL 181 11 2385 PSA LHVISNDV 172 8 2386 PSA LHVISNDVCA 172 10 2387 PSM LKAENIKKF 65 9 2388 PSM LKAENIKKFL 65 10 2389 PSM LKAENIKKFLY 65 11 2390 PAP LKFVTLVF 35 8 2391 Kallikrein LKKNSQVW 67 8 2392 Kallikrein LKKNSQVWL 67 9 2393 PAP LKSEEFQKRL 172 10 2394 PSM LKSPDEGF 481 8 2395 PSM LKVPYNVGPGF 323 11 2396 PAP LRELSELSL 235 9 2397 PAP LRELSELSLL 235 10 2398 PSM LRGAVEPDRY 362 10 2399 PSM LRGAVEPDRYV 362 11 2400 PSM LRKYADKI 604 8 2401 PSM LRKYADKIY 604 9 2402 PSM LRKYADKIYSI 604 11 2403 PSA LRLSEPAEL 120 9 2404 Kallikrein LRLSEPAKI 124 9 2405 PSM LRMMNDQL 661 8 2406 PSM LRMMNDQLM 661 9 2407 PSM LRMMNDQLMF 661 10 2408 PSM LRMMNDQLMFL 661 11 2409 Kallikrein LRPDEDSSHDL 111 11 2410 PSA LRPGDDSSHDL 107 11 2411 Kallikrein LRPRSLQCV 166 9 2412 Kallikrein LRPRSLQCVSL 166 11 2413 PSM LRVDCTPL 462 8 2414 PSM LRVDCTPLM 462 9 2415 PSM LRVDCTPLMY 462 10 2416 PSM MHIHSTNEV 344 9 2417 PSM MKAFLDEL 58 8 2418 PSM MKAFLDELKA 58 10 2419 PSM MKHPQEMKTY 616 10 2420 PSM MKINCSGKI 192 9 2421 PSM MKINCSGKIV 192 10 2422 PSM MKINCSGKIVI 192 11 2423 PAP MKRATQIPSY 271 10 2424 PSM MKTYSVSF 622 8 2425 PSM MKTYSVSFDSL 622 11 2426 PAP MRAAPLLL 1 8 2427 PAP MRAAPLLLA 1 9 2428 PAP MRAAPLLLARA 1 11 2429 PAP NHMKRATQI 269 9 2430 PSM NKFSGYPL 544 8 2431 PSM NKFSGYPLY 544 9 2432 PSM NKTHPNYI 121 8 2433 PSM NKTHPNYISI 121 10 2434 PSM NKTHPNYISII 121 11 2435 PSM NKVKNAQL 212 8 2436 PSM NKVKNAQLA 212 9 2437 PSM NKVKNAQLAGA 212 11 2438 PSM NKYAGESF 698 8 2439 PSM NKYAGESFPGI 698 11 2440 PSM PHLAGTEQNF 81 10 2441 PSA PHPLYDMSL 93 9 2442 PSA PHPLYDMSLL 93 10 2443 Kallikrein PHPLYNMSL 97 9 2444 Kallikrein PHPLYNMSLL 97 10 2445 PSM PKHNMKAF 54 8 2446 PSM PKHNMKAFL 54 9 2447 PSA PKKLQCVDL 164 9 2448 PSA PKKLQCVDLHV 164 11 2449 PAP PRFQELESETL 162 11 2450 PSM PRRTILFA 412 8 2451 PSM PRRTILFASW 412 10 2452 Kallikrein PRSLQCVSL 168 9 2453 Kallikrein PRSLQCVSLHL 168 11 2454 PSM PRWLCAGA 18 8 2455 PSM PRWLCAGAL 18 9 2456 PSM PRWLCAGALV 18 10 2457 PSM PRWLCAGALVL 18 11 2458 PAP QHEPYPLM 336 8 2459 PAP QHEPYPLML 336 9 2460 PAP QHYELGEY 77 8 2461 PAP QHYELGEYI 77 9 2462 PAP QKEKSRLQGGV 252 11 2463 PSM QKLLEKMGGSA 303 11 2464 PAP QKRLHPYKDF 178 10 2465 PAP QKRLHPYKDFI 178 11 2466 PSA QKVTKFML 186 8 2467 PSA QKVTKFMLCA 186 10 2468 PSM QRGNILNL 254 8 2469 PSM QRGNILNLNGA 254 11 2470 PSM QRLGIASGRA 526 10 2471 Kallikrein QRVPVSHSF 88 9 2472 PAP RHGDRSPI 43 8 2473 PAP RHGDRSPIDTF 43 11 2474 PAP RKFLNESY 90 8 2475 PAP RKRYRKFL 86 8 2476 Kallikrein RKWIKDTI 250 8 2477 PSA RKWIKDTI 246 8 2478 Kallikrein RKWIKDTIA 250 9 2479 Kallikrein RKWIKDTIAA 250 10 2480 PSA RKWIKDTIV 246 9 2481 PSA RKWIKDTIVA 246 10 2482 PSM RKYADKIY 605 8 2483 PSM RKYADKIYSI 605 10 2484 PSM RRGIAEAV 280 8 2485 PSM RRGIAEAVGL 280 10 2486 PSM RRPRWLCA 16 8 2487 PSM RRPRWLCAGA 16 10 2488 PSM RRPRWLCAGAL 16 11 2489 PSM RRTILFASW 413 9 2490 PSM RRTILFASWDA 413 11 2491 Kallikrein SHDLMLLRL 118 9 2492 PSA SHDLMLLRL 114 9 2493 Kallikrein SHGWAHCGGV 44 10 2494 Kallikrein SHGWAHCGGVL 44 11 2495 PSM SHNKYAGESF 696 10 2496 Kallikrein SHSFPHPL 93 8 2497 PSA SHSFPHPL 89 8 2498 Kallikrein SHSFPHPLY 93 9 2499 PSA SHSFPHPLY 89 9 2500 PSA SHSFPHPLYDM 89 11 2501 Kallikrein SHSFPHPLYNM 93 11 2502 PSM SKAWGEVKRQI 722 11 2503 PSM SKFSERLQDF 644 10 2504 PSM SKLGSGNDF 513 9 2505 PSM SKLGSGNDFEV 513 11 2506 PSM SKVDPSKA 717 8 2507 PSM SKVDPSKAW 717 9 2508 PAP SKVYDPLY 207 8 2509 PSA SRGRAVCGGV 40 10 2510 PSA SRGRAVCGGVL 40 11 2511 PSM SRLLQERGV 439 9 2512 PSM SRLLQERGVA 439 10 2513 PSM SRLLQERGVAY 439 11 2514 PAP SRLQGGVL 256 8 2515 PAP SRLQGGVLV 256 9 2516 PSM THPNYISI 123 8 2517 PSM THPNYISII 123 9 2518 PSM TKELKSPDEGF 478 11 2519 PSA TKFMLCAGRW 189 10 2520 PSM TKKSPSPEF 498 9 2521 PAP TKLRELSEL 233 9 2522 PAP TKLRELSELSL 233 11 2523 PSM TKNWETNKF 538 9 2524 Kallikrein TKVVHYRKW 244 9 2525 PSA TKVVHYRKW 240 9 2526 Kallikrein TKVVHYRKWI 244 10 2527 PSA TKVVHYRKWI 240 10 2528 PSM TRIYNVIGTL 353 10 2529 PSM VHEIVRSF 395 8 2530 PSM VHEIVRSFGTL 395 11 2531 PAP VHNFTLPSW 218 9 2532 PAP VHNFTLPSWA 218 10 2533 PSM VHNLTKEL 474 8 2534 PSM VHPIGYYDA 294 9 2535 PSA VHPQKVTKF 183 9 2536 PSA VHPQKVTKFM 183 10 2537 PSA VHPQKVTKFML 183 11 2538 Kallikrein VHPQWVLTA 55 9 2539 PSA VHPQWVLTA 51 9 2540 Kallikrein VHPQWVLTAA 55 10 2541 PSA VHPQWVLTAA 51 10 2542 PAP VHTVPLSEDQL 143 11 2543 Kallikrein VHYRKWIKDTI 247 11 2544 PSA VHYRKWIKDTI 243 11 2545 PSM VKMHIHSTNEV 342 11 2546 PSM VKNAQLAGA 214 9 2547 PSM VKNFTEIA 636 8 2548 PSM VKNFTEIASKF 636 11 2549 PSM VKRQIYVA 728 8 2550 PSM VKRQIYVAA 728 9 2551 PSM VKRQIYVAAF 728 10 2552 PSM VKSYPDGW 239 8 2553 PSM VKSYPDGWNL 239 10 2554 PSM VRGGMVFEL 579 9 2555 PSM VRGGMVFELA 579 10 2556 PSM WKEFGLDSV 100 9 2557 PSM WKEFGLDSVEL 100 11 2558 PSM WRGSLKVPY 319 9 2559 PSM WRGSLKVPYNV 319 11 2560 PSM WRPRRTIL 410 8 2561 PSM WRPRRTILF 410 9 2562 PSM WRPRRTILFA 410 10 2563 PSM YHLTVAQV 572 8 2564 PSM YHSVYETY 552 8 2565 PSM YHSVYETYEL 552 10 2566 PSM YHSVYETYELV 552 11 2567 PAP YKDFIATL 184 8 2568 PAP YKDFIATLGKL 184 11 2569 PAP YKHEQVYI 97 8 2570 PAP YKKLIMYSA 280 9 2571 PAP YRKFLNESY 89 9 2572 Kallikrein YRKWIKDTI 249 9 2573 PSA YRKWIKDTI 245 9 2574 Kallikrein YRKWIKDTIA 249 10 2575 Kallikrein YRKWIKDTIAA 249 11 2576 PSA YRKWIKDTIV 245 10 2577 PSA YRKWIKDTIVA 245 11 2578 PAP YRNETQHEPY 331 10 2579 PSM YRRGIAEA 279 8 2580 PSM YRRGIAEAV 279 9 2581 PSM YRRGIAEAVGL 279 11 2582

TABLE XIII Prostate B58 Supermotif with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids No. PSM AAAETLSEV 741 9 2583 PSM AAAETLSEVA 741 10 2584 PSM AAETLSEV 742 8 2585 PSM AAETLSEVA 742 9 2586 PSM AAFTVQAA 735 8 2587 PSM AAFTVQAAA 735 9 2588 PSA AAHCIRNKSV 59 10 2589 PSA AAHCIRNKSVI 59 11 2590 Kallikrein AAHCLKKNSQV 63 11 2591 PAP AALFPPEGV 121 9 2592 PAP AALFPPEGVSI 121 11 2593 PSA AAPLILSRI 13 9 2594 PSA AAPLILSRIV 13 10 2595 PAP AAPLLLARA 3 9 2596 PAP AAPLLLARAA 3 10 2597 PAP AASLSLGF 11 8 2598 PAP AASLSLGFL 11 9 2599 PAP AASLSLGFLF 11 10 2600 PAP AASLSLGFLFL 11 11 2601 PSM AAVVHEIV 392 8 2602 PSM AAVVHEIVRSF 392 11 2603 PAP ASCHLTEL 311 8 2604 PAP ASCHLTELY 311 9 2605 PAP ASCHLTELYF 311 10 2606 PSM ASGRARYTKNW 531 11 2607 PSM ASKFSERL 643 8 2608 PSM ASKFSERLQDF 643 11 2609 PAP ASLSLGFL 12 8 2610 PAP ASLSLGFLF 12 9 2611 PAP ASLSLGFLFL 12 10 2612 PAP ASLSLGFLFLL 12 11 2613 PSA ASRGRAVCGGV 39 11 2614 PSM ASWDAEEF 419 8 2615 PSM ASWDAEEFGL 419 10 2616 PSM ASWDAEEFGLL 419 11 2617 PSM ATARRPRW 13 8 2618 PSM ATARRPRWL 13 9 2619 PSM ATARRPRWLCA 13 11 2620 PAP ATEDTMTKL 227 9 2621 PAP ATLGKLSGL 189 9 2622 PSM ATNITPKHNM 49 10 2623 PAP ATQIPSYKKL 274 10 2624 PAP ATQIPSYKKLI 274 11 2625 PSM CAGALVLA 22 8 2626 PSM CAGALYLAGGF 22 11 2627 Kallikrein CALPEKPA 234 8 2628 Kallikrein CALPEKPAV 234 9 2629 Kallikrein CALPEKPAVY 234 10 2630 PSA CALPERPSL 230 9 2631 PSA CALPERPSLY 230 10 2632 PSA CAQVHPQKV 180 9 2633 Kallikrein CARAYSEKV 184 9 2634 PSA CSGDSGGPL 205 9 2635 PSA CSGDSGGPLV 205 10 2636 PSM CSGKIVIA 196 8 2637 PSM CSGKIVIARY 196 10 2638 PAP CSPSCPLERF 347 10 2639 PAP CSPSCPLERFA 347 11 2640 Kallikrein CTGAVPLI 14 8 2641 PSM CTPLMYSL 466 8 2642 PSM GTPLMYSLV 466 9 2643 PSM DAEEFGLL 422 8 2644 PSM DALFDIESKV 710 10 2645 PSM DAQKLLEKM 301 9 2646 PSA DAVKVMDL 130 8 2647 Kallikrein DSGGPLVCNGV 212 11 2648 PSA DSGGPLVCNGV 208 11 2649 PSM DSLFSAVKNF 630 10 2650 Kallikrein DSSHDLML 116 8 2651 PSA DSSHDLML 112 8 2652 Kallikrein DSSHDLMLL 116 9 2653 PSA DSSHDLMLL 112 9 2654 Kallikrein DSSHDLMLLRL 116 11 2655 PSA DSSHDLMLLRL 112 11 2656 PSM DSSIEGNY 453 8 2657 PSM DSSIEGNYTL 453 10 2658 PSM DSSWRGSL 316 8 2659 PSM DSSWRGSLKV 316 10 2660 PSM DSVELAHY 106 8 2661 PSM DSVELAHYDV 106 10 2662 PSM DSVELAHYDVL 106 11 2663 PSM DSWVFGGI 379 8 2664 Kallikrein DTCGGDSGGPL 207 11 2665 PAP DTFPTDPI 51 8 2666 Kallikrein DTGQRVPV 85 8 2667 PSA DTGQVFQV 81 8 2668 PAP DTMTKLREL 230 9 2669 PAP DTTVSGLQM 290 9 2670 PAP DTTVSGLQMA 290 10 2671 PAP DTTVSGLQMAL 290 11 2672 PSM EATNITPKHNM 48 11 2673 PSM EAVGLPSI 285 8 2674 PSM EAVGLPSIPV 285 10 2675 PAP ESETLKSEEF 168 10 2676 PSM ESFPGIYDA 703 9 2677 PSM ESFPGIYDAL 703 10 2678 PSM ESFPGIYDALF 703 11 2679 PSM ESKVDPSKA 716 9 2680 PSM ESKVDPSKAW 716 10 2681 PAP ESSWPQGF 60 8 2682 PAP ESSWPQGFGQL 60 11 2683 PAP ESVHNFTL 216 8 2684 PAP ESVHNFTLPSW 216 11 2685 PAP ESYKHEQV 95 8 2686 PAP ESYKHEQVY 95 9 2687 PAP ESYKHEQVYI 95 10 2688 PSM ETDSAVATA 7 9 2689 PAP ETLKSEEF 170 8 2690 PSM ETNKFSGY 542 8 2691 PSM ETNKFSGYPL 542 10 2692 PSM ETNKFSGYPLY 542 11 2693 PAP ETQHEPYPL 334 9 2694 PAP ETQHEPYPLM 334 10 2695 PAP ETQHEPYPLML 334 11 2696 PSM ETYELVEKF 557 9 2697 PSM ETYELVEKFY 557 10 2698 PAP FAELVGPV 356 8 2699 PAP FAELVGPVI 356 9 2700 PSM FAPGVKSY 235 8 2701 PSM FASWDAEEF 418 9 2702 PSM FASWDAEEFGL 418 11 2703 PSM FSAFSPQGM 161 9 2704 PSM FSAVKNFTEI 633 10 2705 PSM FSAVKNFTEIA 633 11 2706 PSM FSERLQDF 646 8 2707 PSM FSGMPRISKL 506 10 2708 PSM FSGYPLYHSV 546 10 2709 PSM FSGYPLYHSVY 546 11 2710 PSM FSPQGMPEGDL 164 11 2711 PSM FSTQKVKM 337 8 2712 PSM FSTQKVKMHI 337 10 2713 PSM FTEIASKF 639 8 2714 PSM FTGNFSTQKV 333 10 2715 PSM FTQIPHLA 77 8 2716 PSM FTVQAAAETL 737 10 2717 PSA GAAPLILSRI 12 10 2718 PSA GAAPLILSRIV 12 11 2719 PSM GAAVVHEI 391 8 2720 PSM GAAVVHEIV 391 9 2721 PSM GAGDPLTPGY 263 10 2722 PSM GAKGVILY 221 8 2723 PSM GALVLAGGF 24 9 2724 PSM GALVLAGGFF 24 10 2725 PSM GALVLAGGFFL 24 11 2726 PSM GAVEPDRY 364 8 2727 PSM GAVEPDRYV 364 9 2728 PSM GAVEPDRYVI 364 10 2729 PSM GAVEPDRYVIL 364 11 2730 Kallikrein GAVPLIQSRI 16 10 2731 Kallikrein GAVPLIQSRIV 16 11 2732 PSM GSAPPDSSW 311 9 2733 PSM GSGNDFEV 516 8 2734 PSM GSGNDFEVF 516 9 2735 PSM GSGNDFEVFF 516 10 2736 Kallikrein GSIEPEEF 158 8 2737 PSA GSIEPEEF 154 8 2738 Kallikrein GSIEPEEFL 158 9 2739 PSA GSIEPEEFL 154 9 2740 PSM GSLKVPYNV 321 9 2741 PSM GTEQNFQL 85 8 2742 PSM GTEQNFQLA 85 9 2743 PSM GTLKKEGW 403 8 2744 Kallikrein GTTCYASGW 149 9 2745 PSA GTTCYASGW 145 9 2746 Kallikrein HSFPHPLY 94 8 2747 PSA HSFPHPLY 90 8 2748 PSA HSFPHPLYDM 90 10 2749 Kallikrein HSFPHPLYNM 94 10 2750 Kallikrein HSQPWQVA 34 8 2751 Kallikrein HSQPWQVAV 34 9 2752 Kallikrein HSQPWQVAVY 34 10 2753 PSA HSQPWQVL 30 8 2754 PSA HSQPWQVLV 30 9 2755 PSA HSQPWQVLVA 30 10 2756 PSM HSTNEVTRI 347 9 2757 PSM HSTNEVTRIY 347 10 2758 PSM HSVYETYEL 553 9 2759 PSM HSVYETYELV 553 10 2760 PAP HTVPLSEDQL 144 10 2761 PAP HTVPLSEDQLL 144 11 2762 PSM IAEAVGLPSI 283 10 2763 Kallikrein IALSVGCTGA 8 10 2764 Kallikrein IALSVGCTGAV 8 11 2765 PSM IARYGKVF 202 8 2766 PSM IASGRARY 530 8 2767 PSM IASKFSERL 642 9 2768 PAP IATLGKLSGL 188 10 2769 PSM ISIINEDGNEI 128 11 2770 PSM ISKLGSGNDF 512 10 2771 PSM ISMKHPQEM 614 9 2772 PSA ISNDVCAQV 175 9 2773 Kallikrein ITDVVKVL 132 8 2774 Kallikrein ITDVVKVLGL 132 10 2775 PSM ITPKHNMKA 52 9 2776 PSM ITPKHNMKAF 52 10 2777 PSM ITPKHNMKAFL 52 11 2778 Kallikrein ITSWGPEPCA 226 10 2779 Kallikrein ITSWGPEPCAL 226 11 2780 PSA ITSWGSEPCA 222 10 2781 PSA ITSWGSEPCAL 222 11 2782 PSM KAENIKKF 66 8 2783 PSM KAENIKKFL 66 9 2784 PSM KAENIKKFLY 66 10 2785 PSM KAFLDELKA 59 9 2786 PSM KAWGEVKRQI 723 10 2787 PSM KAWGEVKRQIY 723 11 2788 PAP KSEEFQKRL 173 9 2789 PSM KSNPIVLRM 655 9 2790 PSM KSNPIVLRMM 655 10 2791 PSM KSPSPEFSGM 500 10 2792 PAP KSRLQGGV 255 8 2793 PAP KSRLQGGVL 255 9 2794 PAP KSRLQGGVLV 255 10 2795 PSM KSSNEATNI 44 9 2796 PSA KSVILLGRHSL 66 11 2797 PSM KSYPDGWNL 240 9 2798 PSM KTHPNYISI 122 9 2799 PSM KTHPNYISII 122 10 2800 PSM KTYSVSFDSL 623 10 2801 PSM KTYSVSFDSLF 623 11 2802 PAP LAALFPPEGV 120 10 2803 PSM LAGAKGVI 219 8 2804 PSM LAGAKGVIL 219 9 2805 PSM LAGAKGVILY 219 10 2806 PSM LAGGFFLL 28 8 2807 PSM LAGGFFLLGF 28 10 2808 PSM LAGGFFLLGFL 28 11 2809 PSM LAGTEQNF 83 8 2810 PSM LAGTEQNFQL 83 10 2811 PSM LAGTEQNFQLA 83 11 2812 PSM LAHYDVLL 110 8 2813 PSM LAHYDVLLSY 110 10 2814 PAP LAKELKFV 31 8 2815 PAP LAKELKFVTL 31 10 2816 PAP LAKELKFVTLV 31 11 2817 PSM LAKQIQSQW 92 9 2818 PSM LANSIVLPF 587 9 2819 PAP LARAASLSL 8 9 2820 PAP LARAASLSLGF 8 11 2821 PAP LSEDQLLY 148 8 2822 PAP LSEDQLLYL 148 9 2823 PAP LSEDQLLYLPF 148 11 2824 PAP LSELSLLSL 238 9 2825 PAP LSELSLLSLY 238 10 2826 PSA LSEPAELTDA 122 10 2827 PSA LSEPAELTDAV 122 11 2828 Kallikrein LSEPAKITDV 126 10 2829 Kallikrein LSEPAKITDVV 126 11 2830 PAP LSGLHGQDL 194 9 2831 PAP LSGLHGQDLF 194 10 2832 PAP LSLGFLFL 14 8 2833 PAP LSLGFLFLL 14 9 2834 PAP LSLGFLFLLF 14 10 2835 PAP LSLGFLFLLFF 14 11 2836 PAP LSLLSLYGI 241 9 2837 Kallikrein LSNDMCARA 179 9 2838 Kallikrein LSNDMCARAY 179 10 2839 PSA LSRIVGGW 18 8 2840 Kallikrein LSVGCTGA 10 8 2841 Kallikrein LSVGCTGAV 10 9 2842 Kallikrein LSVGCTGAVPL 10 11 2843 PSA LSVTWIGA 6 8 2844 PSA LSVTWIGAA 6 9 2845 PSA LSVTWIGAAPL 6 11 2846 PSM LSYPNKTHPNY 117 11 2847 PSA LTDAVKVM 128 8 2848 PSA LTDAVKVMDL 128 10 2849 PAP LTELYFEKGEY 315 11 2850 PSA LTLSVTWI 4 8 2851 PSA LTLSVTWIGA 4 10 2852 PSA LTLSVTWIGAA 4 11 2853 PSM LTPGYPANEY 268 10 2854 PSM LTPGYPANEYA 268 11 2855 PSA LTPKKLQCV 162 9 2856 PSA LTPKKLQCVDL 162 11 2857 PAP LTQLGMEQHY 70 10 2858 PSM LTVAQVRGGM 574 10 2859 PSM LTVAQVRGGMV 574 11 2860 PAP MALDVYNGL 298 9 2861 PAP MALDVYNGLL 298 10 2862 PAP MSAMTNLA 114 8 2863 PAP MSAMTNLAA 114 9 2864 PAP MSAMTNLAAL 114 10 2865 PAP MSAMTNLAALF 114 11 2866 Kallikrein MSLLKHQSL 103 9 2867 PSA MSLLKNRF 99 8 2868 PSA MSLLKNRFL 99 9 2869 PAP MTKLRELSEL 232 10 2870 PAP MTNLAALF 117 8 2871 PSM NADSSIEGNY 451 10 2872 PSM NAQLAGAKGV 216 10 2873 PSM NAQLAGAKGVI 216 11 2874 Kallikrein NSQVWLGRHNL 70 11 2875 PSM NSRLLQERGV 438 10 2876 PSM NSRLLQERGVA 438 11 2877 PSM PADYFAPGV 231 9 2878 PSA PAELTDAV 125 8 2879 PSA PAELTDAVKV 125 10 2880 PSA PAELTDAVKVM 125 11 2881 Kallikrein PAKITDVV 129 8 2882 Kallikrein PAKITDVVKV 129 10 2883 Kallikrein PAKITDVVKVL 129 11 2884 Kallikrein PALGTTCY 146 8 2885 PSA PALGTTCY 142 8 2886 Kallikrein PALGTTCYA 146 9 2887 PSA PALGTTCYA 142 9 2888 PSM PANEYAYRRGI 273 11 2889 Kallikrein PAVYTKVV 240 8 2890 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVHY 240 10 2891 PAP PSCPLERF 349 8 2892 PAP PSCPLERFA 349 9 2893 PAP PSCPLERFAEL 349 11 2894 PSM PSIPVHPI 290 8 2895 PSM PSIPVHPIGY 290 10 2896 PSM PSIPVHPIGYY 290 11 2897 PSM PSKAWGEV 721 8 2898 PSA PSLYTKVV 236 8 2899 PSA PSLYTKVVHY 236 10 2900 PSM PSPEFSGM 502 8 2901 PSM PSPEFSGMPRI 502 11 2902 PSM PSSHNKYA 694 8 2903 PAP PSWATEDTM 224 9 2904 PAP PSYKKLIM 278 8 2905 PAP PSYKKLIMY 278 9 2906 PAP PSYKKLIMYSA 278 11 2907 PAP PTDPIKESSW 54 10 2908 PSM QAAAETLSEV 740 10 2909 PSM QAAAETLSEVA 740 11 2910 PSM QSGAAVVHEI 389 10 2911 PSM QSGAAVVHEIV 389 11 2912 PSM QSQWKEFGL 97 9 2913 Kallikrein QSRIVGGW 22 8 2914 PAP RAAPLLLA 2 8 2915 PAP RAAPLLLARA 2 10 2916 PAP RAAPLLLARAA 2 11 2917 PAP RAASLSLGF 10 9 2918 PAP RAASLSLGFL 10 10 2919 PAP RAASLSLGFLF 10 11 2920 PSM RAFIDPLGL 673 9 2921 PSM RARYTKNW 534 8 2922 PAP RATQIPSY 273 8 2923 PAP RATQIPSYKKL 273 11 2924 PSA RAVCGGVL 43 8 2925 PSA RAVCGGVLV 43 9 2926 Kallikrein RAYSEKVTEF 186 10 2927 Kallikrein RAYSEKVTEFM 186 11 2928 PSM RSFGTLKKEGW 400 11 2929 Kallikrein RSLQCVSL 169 8 2930 Kallikrein RSLQCVSLHL 169 10 2931 Kallikrein RSLQCVSLHLL 169 11 2932 PAP RSTDVDRTL 105 9 2933 PAP RSTDVDRTLM 105 10 2934 PAP RSVLAKEL 28 8 2935 PAP RSVLAKELKF 28 10 2936 PAP RSVLAKELKFV 28 11 2937 PSM RTEDFFKL 181 8 2938 PSM RTILFASW 414 8 2939 PSM RTILFASWDA 414 10 2940 PAP RTLMSAMTNL 111 10 2941 PAP RTLMSAMTNLA 111 11 2942 PSM SAFSPQGM 162 8 2943 PAP SAHDTTVSGL 287 10 2944 PAP SAMTNLAA 115 8 2945 PAP SAMTNLAAL 115 9 2946 PAP SAMTNLAALF 115 10 2947 PSM SAPPDSSW 312 8 2948 PSM SAVATARRPRW 10 11 2949 PSM SAVKNFTEI 634 9 2950 PSM SAVKNFTEIA 634 10 2951 Kallikrein SSHDLMLL 117 8 2952 PSA SSHDLMLL 113 8 2953 Kallikrein SSHDLMLLRL 117 10 2954 PSA SSHDLMLLRL 113 10 2955 PSM SSHNKYAGESF 695 11 2956 PSM SSIEGNYTL 454 9 2957 PSM SSIEGNYTLRV 454 11 2958 PSM SSNEATNI 45 8 2959 PAP SSWPQGFGQL 61 10 2960 PSM SSWRGSLKV 317 9 2961 PSM SSWRGSLKVPY 317 11 2962 PSA STCSGDSGGPL 203 11 2963 PAP STDVDRTL 106 8 2964 PAP STDVDRTLM 106 9 2965 PAP STDVDRTLMSA 106 11 2966 PSM STEWAEENSRL 431 11 2967 PSM STNEVTRI 348 8 2968 PSM STNEVTRIY 348 9 2969 PSM STNEVTRIYNV 348 11 2970 PSM STQKVKMHI 338 9 2971 PSA TAAHCIRNKSV 58 11 2972 PSM TARRPRWL 14 8 2973 PSM TARRPRWLCA 14 10 2974 PSM TSLFEPPPPGY 141 11 2975 Kallikrein TSWGPEPCA 227 9 2976 Kallikrein TSWGPEPCAL 227 10 2977 PSA TSWGSEPCA 223 9 2978 PSA TSWGSEPCAL 223 10 2979 Kallikrein TTCYASGW 150 8 2980 PSA TTCYASGW 146 8 2981 Kallikrein TTCYASGWGSI 150 11 2982 PSA TTCYASGWGSI 146 11 2983 PAP TTVSGLQM 291 8 2984 PAP TTVSGLQMA 291 9 2985 PAP TTVSGLQMAL 291 10 2986 PSM VAAFTVQA 734 8 2987 PSM VAAFTVQAA 734 9 2988 PSM VAAFTVQAAA 734 10 2989 PSM VAQVRGGM 576 8 2990 PSM VAQVRGGMV 576 9 2991 PSM VAQVRGGMVF 576 10 2992 PSA VASRGRAV 38 8 2993 PSM VATARRPRW 12 9 2994 PSM VATARRPRWL 12 10 2995 Kallikrein VAVYSHGW 40 8 2996 Kallikrein VAVYSHGWA 40 9 2997 PSM VAYINADSSI 447 10 2998 PSM VSDIVPPF 154 8 2999 PSM VSDIVPPFSA 154 10 3000 PSM VSDIVPPFSAF 154 11 3001 PSM VSFDSLFSA 627 9 3002 PSM VSFDSLFSAV 627 10 3003 PAP VSGLQMAL 293 8 3004 PAP VSGLQMALDV 293 10 3005 PAP VSGLQMALDVY 293 11 3006 Kallikrein VSHSFPHPL 92 9 3007 PSA VSHSFPHPL 88 9 3008 Kallikrein VSHSFPHPLY 92 10 3009 PSA VSHSFPHPLY 88 10 3010 PAP VSIWNPIL 129 8 3011 PAP VSIWNPILL 129 9 3012 PAP VSIWNPILLW 129 10 3013 Kallikrein VSLHLLSNDM 174 10 3014 Kallikrein VTEFMLCA 192 8 3015 Kallikrein VTEFMLCAGL 192 10 3016 Kallikrein VTEFMLCAGLW 192 11 3017 PSA VTKFMLCA 188 8 3018 PSA VTKFMLCAGRW 188 11 3019 PSM VTRIYNVI 352 8 3020 PSM VTRIYNVIGTL 352 11 3021 PSA VTWIGAAPL 8 9 3022 PSA VTWIGAAPLI 8 10 3023 PSA VTWIGAAPLIL 8 11 3024 PSM WAEENSRL 434 8 3025 PSM WAEENSRLL 434 9 3026 Kallikrein WAHCGGVL 47 8 3027 Kallikrein WAHCGGVLV 47 9 3028 PAP WATEDTMTKL 226 10 3029 PAP WSKVYDPL 206 8 3030 PAP WSKVYDPLY 206 9 3031 PSM WTKKSPSPEF 497 10 3032 PSM YADKIYSI 607 8 3033 PSM YADKIYSISM 607 10 3034 PSM YAGESFPGI 700 9 3035 PSM YAGESFPGIY 700 10 3036 PSM YAPSSHNKY 692 9 3037 PSM YAPSSHNKYA 692 10 3038 PSM YARTEDFF 179 8 3039 PSM YARTEDFFKL 179 10 3040 PAP YASCHLTEL 310 9 3041 PAP YASCHLTELY 310 10 3042 PAP YASCHLTELYF 310 11 3043 Kallikrein YASGWGSI 153 8 3044 PSA YASGWGSI 149 8 3045 PSM YAVVLRKY 600 8 3046 PSM YAVVLRKYA 600 9 3047 PSM YAYRRGIA 277 8 3048 PSM YAYRRGIAEA 277 10 3049 PSM YAYRRGIAEAV 277 11 3050 PAP YSAHDTTV 286 8 3051 PAP YSAHDTTVSGL 286 11 3052 PSM YSDPADYF 228 8 3053 PSM YSDPADYFA 228 9 3054 Kallikrein YSEKVTEF 188 8 3055 Kallikrein YSEKVTEFM 188 9 3056 Kallikrein YSEKVTEFML 188 10 3057 Kallikrein YSHGWAHCGGV 43 11 3058 PSM YSISMKHPQEM 612 11 3059 PSM YSLVHNLTKEL 471 11 3060 PSM YSVSFDSL 625 8 3061 PSM YSVSFDSLF 625 9 3062 PSM YSVSFDSLFSA 625 11 3063 PSM YTKNWETNKF 537 10 3064 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRKW 243 10 3065 PSA YTKVVHYRKW 239 10 3066 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRKWI 243 11 3067 PSA YTKVVHYRKWI 239 11 3068 PSM YTLRVDCTPL 460 10 3069 PSM YTLRVDCTPLM 460 11 3070

TABLE XIV Prostate B62 Supermotif with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids No. PAP ALDVYNGL 299 8 3071 PAP ALDVYNGLL 299 9 3072 PSM ALFDIESKV 711 9 3073 PAP ALFPPEGV 122 8 3074 PAP ALFPPEGVSI 122 10 3075 PAP ALFPPEGVSTW 122 11 3076 Kallikrein ALGTTCYA 147 8 3077 PSA ALGTTCYA 143 8 3078 Kallikrein ALGTTCYASGW 147 11 3079 PSA ALGTTCYASGW 143 11 3080 Kallikrein ALPEKPAV 235 8 3081 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVY 235 9 3082 PSA ALPERPSL 231 8 3083 PSA ALPERPSLY 231 9 3084 Kallikrein ALSVGCTGA 9 9 3085 Kallikrein ALSVGCTGAV 9 10 3086 PSM ALVLAGGF 25 8 3087 PSM ALVLAGGFF 25 9 3088 PSM ALVLAGGFFL 25 10 3089 PSM ALVLAGGFFLL 25 11 3090 PAP AMTNLAAL 116 8 3091 PAP AMTNLAALF 116 9 3092 PSM APGVKSYPDGW 236 11 3093 PSA APLILSRI 14 8 3094 PSA APLILSRIV 4 9 3095 PAP APLLLARA 4 8 3096 PAP APLLLARAA 4 9 3097 PAP APLLLARAASL 4 11 3098 PSM APPDSSWRGSL 313 11 3099 PSM APSSHNKY 693 8 3100 PSM APSSHNKYA 693 9 3101 PSM AQKLLEKM 302 8 3102 PSM AQLAGAKGV 217 9 3103 PSM AQLAGAKGVI 217 10 3104 PSM AQLAGAKGVIL 217 11 3105 PSA AQVHPQKV 181 8 3106 PSA AQVHPQKVTKF 181 11 3107 PSM AQVRGGMV 577 8 3108 PSM AQVRGGMVF 577 9 3109 PSM AQVRGGMVFEL 577 11 3110 PSM AVATARRPRW 11 10 3111 PSM AVATARRPRWL 11 11 3112 PSA AVCGGVLV 44 8 3113 PSM AVEPDRYV 365 8 3114 PSM AVEPDRYVI 365 9 3115 PSM AVEPDRYVIL 365 10 3116 PSM AVGLPSIPV 286 9 3117 PSM AVKNFTEI 635 8 3118 PSM AVKNFTEIA 635 9 3119 Kallikrein AVPLIQSRI 17 9 3120 Kallikrein AVPLIQSRIV 17 10 3121 PSM AVVHEIVRSF 393 10 3122 PSM AVVLRKYA 601 8 3123 PSM AVVLRKYADKI 601 11 3124 Kallikrein AVYSHGWA 41 8 3125 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHY 241 9 3126 PSA CIRNKSVI 62 8 3127 PSA CIRNKSVIL 62 9 3128 PSA CIRNKSVILL 62 10 3129 Kallikrein CLKKNSQV 66 8 3130 Kallikrein CLKKNSQVW 66 9 3131 Kallikrein CLKKNSQVWL 66 10 3132 PAP CPLERFAEL 351 9 3133 PAP CPLERFAELV 351 10 3134 PSA CVDLHVISNDV 169 11 3135 Kallikrein CVSLHLLSNDM 173 11 3136 PSM DIESKVDPSKA 714 11 3137 PSM DIVPPFSA 156 8 3138 PSM DIVPPFSAF 156 9 3139 PAP DLFGIWSKV 201 9 3140 PAP DLFGIWSKVY 201 10 3141 PSA DLHVISNDV 171 9 3142 PSA DLHVISNDVCA 171 11 3143 Kallikrein DLMLLRLSEPA 120 11 3144 PSA DLMLLRLSEPA 116 11 3145 PSA DLPTQEPA 136 8 3146 PSA DLPTQEPAL 136 9 3147 Kallikrein DLVLSIAL 3 8 3148 Kallikrein DLVLSIALSV 3 10 3149 PSM DLVYVNYA 173 8 3150 Kallikrein DMCARAYSEKV 182 11 3151 PSM DMKINCSGKI 191 10 3152 PSM DMKINCSGKIV 191 11 3153 PSA DMSLLKNRF 98 9 3154 PSA DMSLLKNRFL 98 10 3155 PSM DPADYFAPGV 230 10 3156 PAP DPIKESSW 56 8 3157 PSM DPLGLPDRPF 677 10 3158 PSM DPLGLPDRPFY 677 11 3159 PSM DPLTPGYPA 266 9 3160 PAP DPLYCESV 211 8 3161 PAP DPLYCESVHNF 211 11 3162 PSM DPMFKYHL 567 8 3163 PSM DPMFKYHLTV 567 10 3164 PSM DPMFKYHLTVA 567 11 3165 PSM DPQSGAAV 387 8 3166 PSM DPQSGAAVV 387 9 3167 PSM DPSKAWGEV 720 9 3168 PAP DQLLYLPF 151 8 3169 PSM DQLMFLERA 666 9 3170 PSM DQLMFLERAF 666 10 3171 PSM DQLMFLERAFI 666 11 3172 PSA DVCAQVHPQKV 178 11 3173 PAP DVDRTLMSA 108 9 3174 PAP DVDRTLMSAM 108 10 3175 Kallikrein DVVKVLGL 134 8 3176 PAP DVYNGLLPPY 301 10 3177 PAP DVYNGLLPPYA 301 11 3178 PSM EIASKFSERL 641 10 3179 PSM EIFNTSLF 137 8 3180 PAP EILNHMKRA 266 9 3181 PSM EIVRSFGTL 397 9 3182 PSM ELAHYDVL 109 8 3183 PSM ELAHYDVLL 109 9 3184 PSM ELAHYDVLLSY 109 11 3185 PSM ELANSIVL 586 8 3186 PSM ELANSIVLPF 586 10 3187 PAP ELGEYIRKRY 80 10 3188 PSM ELKAENIKKF 64 10 3189 PSM ELKAENIKKFL 64 11 3190 PAP ELKFVTLV 34 8 3191 PAP ELKFVTLVF 34 9 3192 PSM ELKSPDEGF 480 9 3193 PAP ELSELSLL 237 8 3194 PAP ELSELSLLSL 237 10 3195 PAP ELSELSLLSLY 237 11 3196 PAP ELSLLSLY 240 8 3197 PAP ELSLLSLYGI 240 10 3198 PSA ELTDAVKV 127 8 3199 PSA ELTDAVKVM 127 9 3200 PSA ELTDAVKVMDL 127 11 3201 PSM ELVEKFYDPM 560 10 3202 PSM ELVEKFYDPMF 560 11 3203 PAP ELVGPVIPQDW 358 11 3204 PAP ELYFEKGEY 317 9 3205 PAP ELYFEKGEYF 317 10 3206 PAP ELYFEKGEYFV 317 11 3207 PSM EMKTYSVSF 621 9 3208 PSA EPAELTDA 124 8 3209 PSA EPAELTDAV 124 9 3210 PSA EPAELTDAVKV 124 11 3211 Kallikrein EPAKITDV 128 8 3212 Kallikrein EPAKITDVV 128 9 3213 Kallikrein EPAKITDVVKV 128 11 3214 Kallikrein EPALGTTCY 145 9 3215 PSA EPALGTTCY 141 9 3216 Kallikrein EPALGTTCYA 145 10 3217 PSA EPALGTTCYA 141 10 3218 Kallikrein EPCALPEKPA 232 10 3219 Kallikrein EPCALPEKPAV 232 11 3220 PSA EPCALPERPSL 228 11 3221 PSM EPDRYVIL 367 8 3222 Kallikrein EPEDTGQRV 82 9 3223 Kallikrein EPEDTGQRVPV 82 11 3224 Kallikrein EPEEFLRPRSL 161 11 3225 PSA EPEEFLTPKKL 157 11 3226 PSM EPPPPGYENV 145 10 3227 PAP EQHYELGEY 76 9 3228 PAP EQHYELGEYI 76 10 3229 PSM EQNFQLAKQI 87 10 3230 PAP EQVYIRSTDV 100 10 3231 PSM EVFFQRLGI 522 9 3232 PSM EVFFQRLGIA 522 10 3233 PSM EVKRQIYV 727 8 3234 PSM EVKRQIYVA 727 9 3235 PSM EVKRQIYVAA 727 10 3236 PSM EVKRQIYVAAF 727 11 3237 PSM EVTRIYNV 351 8 3238 PSM EVTRIYNVI 351 9 3239 PAP FIATLGKL 187 8 3240 PAP FIATLGKLSGL 187 11 3241 PSM FIKSSNEA 42 8 3242 PSM FIKSSNEATNI 42 11 3243 PSM FLDELKAENI 61 10 3244 PSM FLERAFIDPL 670 10 3245 PAP FLFLLFFW 18 8 3246 PAP FLFLLFFWL 18 9 3247 PAP FLLFFWLDRSV 20 11 3248 PSM FLLGFLFGW 33 9 3249 PSM FLLGFLFGWF 33 10 3250 PSM FLLGFLFGWFI 33 11 3251 PAP FLNESYKHEQV 92 11 3252 Kallikrein FLRPRSLQCV 165 10 3253 PSA FLTLSVTW 3 8 3254 PSA FLTLSVTWI 3 9 3255 PSA FLTLSVTWIGA 3 11 3256 PSA FLTPKKLQCV 161 10 3257 PSM FLYNFTQI 73 8 3258 PSM FLYNFTQIPHL 73 11 3259 Kallikrein FMLCAGLW 195 8 3260 PSA FMLCAGRW 191 8 3261 PSM FPGIYDAL 705 8 3262 PSM FPGIYDALF 705 9 3263 PSM FPGIYDALFDI 705 11 3264 PSA FPHPLYDM 92 8 3265 PSA FPHPLYDMSL 92 10 3266 PSA FPHPLYDMSLL 92 11 3267 Kallikrein FPHPLYNM 96 8 3268 Kallikrein FPHPLYNMSL 96 10 3269 Kallikrein FPHPLYNMSLL 96 11 3270 PAP FPPEGVSI 124 8 3271 PAP FPPEGVSIW 124 9 3272 PAP FPTDPIKESSW 53 11 3273 PAP FQELESETL 164 9 3274 PAP FQKRLHPY 177 8 3275 PAP FQKRLHPYKDF 177 11 3276 PSM FQLAKQIQSQW 90 11 3277 PSM FQRLGIASGRA 525 11 3278 PSA FQVSHSEPHPL 86 11 3279 PSM GIAEAVGL 282 8 3280 PSM GIAEAVGLPSI 282 11 3281 PSM GIASGRARY 529 9 3282 PSM GIDPQSGA 385 8 3283 PSM GIDPQSGAA 385 9 3284 PSM GIDPQSGAAV 385 10 3285 PSM GIDPQSGAAVV 385 11 3286 PAP GIHKQKEKSRL 248 11 3287 Kallikrein GITSWGPEPCA 225 11 3288 PSA GITSWGSEPCA 221 11 3289 PAP GIWSKVYDPL 204 10 3290 PAP GIWSKVYDPLY 204 11 3291 PSM GIYDALFDI 707 9 3292 PSM GLDSVELA 104 8 3293 PSM GLDSVELAHY 104 10 3294 PAP GLHGQDLF 196 8 3295 PAP GLHGQDLFGI 196 10 3296 PAP GLHGQDLFGIW 196 11 3297 PSM GLLGSTEW 427 8 3298 PSM GLLGSTEWA 427 9 3299 PAP GLLPPYASCHL 305 11 3300 PSM GLPDRPFY 680 8 3301 PSM GLPDRPFYRHV 680 11 3302 PSM GLPSIPVHPI 288 10 3303 Kallikrein GLPTQEPA 140 8 3304 Kallikrein GLPTQEPAL 140 9 3305 PAP GLQMALDV 295 8 3306 PAP GLQMALDVY 295 9 3307 PAP GMEQHYEL 74 8 3308 PAP GMEQHYELGEY 74 11 3309 PSM GMPEGDLV 168 8 3310 PSM GMPEGDLVY 168 9 3311 PSM GMPEGDLVYV 168 10 3312 PSM GMPRISKL 508 8 3313 PSM GMVFELANSI 582 10 3314 PSM GMVFELANSIV 582 11 3315 PSM GPGFTGNF 330 8 3316 Kallikrein GPLVCNGV 215 8 3317 PSA GPLVCNGV 211 8 3318 Kallikrein GPLVCNGVL 215 9 3319 PSA GPLVCNGVL 211 9 3320 PAP GPVIPQDW 361 8 3321 PAP GQDLFGIW 199 8 3322 PAP GQDLFGIWSKV 199 11 3323 PAP GQLTQLGM 68 8 3324 Kallikrein GQRVPVSHSF 87 10 3325 PSA GQVFQVSHSF 83 10 3326 PSM GVAYINADSSI 446 11 3327 PSM GVILYSDPA 224 9 3328 PSM GVILYSDPADY 224 11 3329 PSM GVKSYPDGW 238 9 3330 PSM GVKSYPDGWNL 238 11 3331 Kallikrein GVLQGITSW 221 9 3332 PSA GVLQGITSW 217 9 3333 Kallikrein GVLVHPQW 52 8 3334 PSA GVLVHPQW 48 8 3335 Kallikrein GVLVHPQWV 52 9 3336 PSA GVLVHPQWV 48 9 3337 Kallikrein GVLVHPQWVL 52 10 3338 PSA GVLVHPQWVL 48 10 3339 PAP GVLVNEIL 261 8 3340 PAP GVLVNEILNHM 261 11 3341 PSM GVQRGNIL 252 8 3342 PSM GVQRGNILNL 252 10 3343 PAP GVSIWNPI 128 8 3344 PAP GVSIWNPIL 128 9 3345 PAP GVSIWNPILL 128 10 3346 PAP GVSIWNPILLW 128 11 3347 PSM HIHSTNEV 345 8 3348 PSM HIHSTNEVTRI 345 11 3349 PSM HLAGTEQNF 82 9 3350 PSM HLAGTEQNFQL 82 11 3351 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCA 177 9 3352 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCARA 177 11 3353 PSM HLTVAQVRGGM 573 11 3354 PAP HMKRATQI 270 8 3355 PAP HMKRATQIPSY 270 11 3356 PSA HPEDTGQV 78 8 3357 PSA HPEDTGQVF 78 9 3358 PSA HPEDTGQVFQV 78 11 3359 PSM HPIGYYDA 295 8 3360 PSM HPIGYYDAQKL 295 11 3361 PSA HPLYDMSL 94 8 3362 PSA HPLYDMSLL 94 9 3363 Kallikrein HPLYNMSL 98 8 3364 Kallikrein HPLYNMSLL 98 9 3365 PSM HPNYISII 124 8 3366 PSM HPQEMKTY 618 8 3367 PSM HPQEMKTYSV 618 10 3368 PSA HPQKVTKF 184 8 3369 PSA HPQKVTKFM 184 9 3370 PSA HPQKVTKFML 184 10 3371 Kallikrein HPQWVLTA 56 8 3372 PSA HPQWVLTA 52 8 3373 Kallikrein HPQWVLTAA 56 9 3374 PSA HPQWVLTAA 52 9 3375 PAP HPYKDFIA 182 8 3376 PAP HPYKDFIATL 182 10 3377 PSA HVISNDVCA 173 9 3378 PSA HVISNDVCAQV 173 11 3379 PSM IINEDGNEI 130 9 3380 PSM IINEDGNEIF 130 10 3381 PSM ILFASWDA 416 8 3382 PSM ILFASWDAEEF 416 11 3383 PSM ILGGHRDSW 373 9 3384 PSM ILGGHRDSWV 373 10 3385 PSM ILGGHRDSWVF 373 11 3386 PSA ILLGRHSL 69 8 3387 PSA ILLGRHSLF 69 9 3388 PAP ILLWQPIPV 135 9 3389 PAP ILNHMKRA 267 8 3390 PAP ILNHMKRATQI 267 11 3391 PSM ILNLNGAGDPL 258 11 3392 PSA ILSRIVGGW 17 9 3393 PSM ILYSDPADY 226 9 3394 PSM ILYSDPADYF 226 10 3395 PSM ILYSDPADYFA 226 11 3396 PAP IMYSAHDTTV 284 10 3397 PSM IPHLAGTEQNF 80 11 3398 PAP IPQDWSTECM 364 10 3399 PAP IPSYKKLI 277 8 3400 PAP IPSYKKLIM 277 9 3401 PAP IPSYKKLIMY 277 10 3402 PSM IPVHPIGY 292 8 3403 PSM IPVHPIGYY 292 9 3404 PSM IPVHPIGYYDA 292 11 3405 PAP IPVHTVPL 141 8 3406 PSM IQSQWKEF 96 8 3407 PSM IQSQWKEFGL 96 10 3408 Kallikrein IQSRIVGGW 21 9 3409 PSM IVIARYGKV 200 9 3410 PSM IVIARYGKVF 200 10 3411 PSM IVLPFDCRDY 591 10 3412 PSM IVLPFDCRDYA 591 11 3413 PSM IVLRMMNDQL 659 10 3414 PSM IVLRMMNDQLM 659 11 3415 PSM IVPPFSAF 157 8 3416 PSM IVRSFGTL 398 8 3417 PSM KINCSGKI 193 8 3418 PSM KINCSGKIV 193 9 3419 PSM KINCSGKIVI 193 10 3420 PSM KINCSGKIVIA 193 11 3421 Kallikrein KITDVVKV 131 8 3422 Kallikrein KITTVVKVL 131 9 3423 Kallikrein KITDVVKVLGL 131 11 3424 PSM KIVIARYGKV 199 10 3425 PSM KIVIARYGKVF 199 11 3426 PSM KLERDMKI 187 8 3427 PSM KLGSGNDF 514 8 3428 PSM KLGSGNDFEV 514 10 3429 PSM KLGSGNDFEVF 514 11 3430 PSM KLLEKMGGSA 304 10 3431 PSA KLQCVDLHV 166 9 3432 PSA KLQCVDLHVI 166 10 3433 PAP KLRELSEL 234 8 3434 PAP KLRELSELSL 234 10 3435 PAP KLRELSELSLL 234 11 3436 PAP KLSGLHGQDL 193 10 3437 PAP KLSGLHGQDLF 193 11 3438 PSM KMHIHSTNEV 343 10 3439 Kallikrein KPAVYTKV 239 8 3440 Kallikrein KPAVYTKVV 239 9 3441 Kallikrein KPAVYTKVVHY 239 11 3442 PSM KQIQSQWKEF 94 10 3443 PAP KQKEKSRL 251 8 3444 PSM KVDPSKAW 71$ 8 3445 PSM KVDPSKAWGEV 718 11 3446 PSM KVFRGNKV 207 8 3447 PSM KVFRGNKVKNA 207 11 3448 PSM KVKNAQLA 213 8 3449 PSM KVKNAQLAGA 213 10 3450 Kallikrein KVLGLPTQEPA 137 11 3451 PSA KVMDLPTQEPA 133 11 3452 PSM KVPYNVGPGF 324 10 3453 Kallikrein KVTEFMLCA 191 9 3454 Kallikrein KVTEFMLCAGL 191 11 3455 PSA KVTKFMLCA 187 9 3456 Kallikrein KVVHYRKW 245 8 3457 PSA KVVHYRKW 241 8 3458 Kallikrein KVVHYRKWI 245 9 3459 PSA KVVHYRKWI 241 9 3460 PAP KVYDPLYCESV 208 11 3461 PSA LILSRIVGGW 16 10 3462 PAP LIMYSAHDTTV 283 11 3463 Kallikrein LIQSRIVGGW 20 10 3464 PAP LLARAASL 7 8 3465 PAP LLARAASLSL 7 10 3466 PSM LLEKMGGSA 305 9 3467 PAP LLFFWLDRSV 21 10 3468 PAP LLFFWLDRSVL 21 11 3469 PSM LLGFLFGW 34 8 3470 PSM LLGFLFGWF 34 9 3471 PSM LLGFLFGWFI 34 10 3472 PSA LLGRHSLF 70 8 3473 PSM LLGSTEWA 428 8 3474 PSM LLHETDSA 4 8 3475 PSM LLHETDSAV 4 9 3476 PSM LLHETDSAVA 4 10 3477 PAP LLLARAASL 6 9 3478 PAP LLLARAASLSL 6 11 3479 PAP LLPPYASCHL 306 10 3480 PSM LLQERGVA 441 8 3481 PSM LLQERGVAY 441 9 3482 PSM LLQERGVAYI 441 10 3483 Kallikrein LLRLSEPA 123 8 3484 PSA LLRLSEPA 119 8 3485 PSA LLRLSEPAEL 119 10 3486 Kallikrein LLRLSEPAKI 123 10 3487 Kallikrein LLSNDMCA 178 8 3488 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARA 178 10 3489 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARAY 178 11 3490 PAP LLWQPIPV 136 8 3491 PAP LLWQPIPVHTV 136 11 3492 PSM LMFLERAF 668 8 3493 PSM LMFLERAFI 668 9 3494 Kallikrein LMLLRLSEPA 121 10 3495 PSA LMLLRLSEPA 117 10 3496 PAP LMSAMTNL 113 8 3497 PAP LMSAMTNLA 113 9 3498 PAP LMSAMTNLAA 113 10 3499 PAP LMSAMTNLAAL 113 11 3500 PSM LMYSLVHNL 469 9 3501 PSM LPDRPFYRHV 681 10 3502 PSM LPDRPFYRHVI 681 11 3503 Kallikrein LPEKPAVY 236 8 3504 Kallikrein LPEKPAVYTKV 236 11 3505 PSA LPERPSLY 232 8 3506 PSA LPERPSLYTKV 232 11 3507 PSM LPFDCRDY 593 8 3508 PSM LPFDCRDYA 593 9 3509 PSM LPFDCRDYAV 593 10 3510 PSM LPFDCRDYAVV 593 11 3511 PAP LPFRNCPRF 156 9 3512 PAP LPGCSPSCPL 344 10 3513 PSM LPGGGVQRGNI 248 11 3514 PAP LPPYASCHL 307 9 3515 PSM LPSIPVHPI 289 9 3516 PSM LPSIPVHPIGY 289 11 3517 PAP LPSWATEDTM 223 10 3518 Kallikrein LPTQEPAL 141 8 3519 PSA LPTQEPAL 137 8 3520 PSA LQCVDLHV 167 8 3521 PSA LQCVDLHVI 167 9 3522 Kallikrein LQCVSLHL 171 8 3523 Kallikrein LQCVSLHLL 171 9 3524 PSM LQDFDKSNPI 650 10 3525 PSM LQDFDKSNPIV 650 11 3526 PSM LQERGVAY 442 8 3527 PSM LQERGVAYI 442 9 3528 PSM LQERGVAYINA 442 11 3529 PAP LQGGVLVNEI 258 10 3530 PAP LQGGVLVNEIL 258 11 3531 PAP LQMALDVY 296 8 3532 PAP LQMALDVYNGL 296 11 3533 PSA LVASRGRA 37 8 3534 PSA LVASRGRAV 37 9 3535 Kallikrein LVCNGVLQGI 217 10 3536 PSA LVCNGVLQGI 213 10 3537 PSM LVEKFYDPM 561 9 3538 PSM LVEKFYDPMF 561 10 3539 PAP LVFRHGDRSPI 40 11 3540 PAP LVGPVIPQDW 359 10 3541 PSM LVHNLTKEL 473 9 3542 Kallikrein LVHPQWVL 54 8 3543 PSA LVHPQWVL 50 8 3544 Kallikrein LVHPQWVLTA 54 10 3545 PSA LVHPQWVLTA 50 10 3546 Kallikrein LVHPQWVLTAA 54 11 3547 PSA LVHPQWVLTAA 50 11 3548 PSM LVLAGGFF 26 8 3549 PSM LVLAGGFFL 26 9 3550 PSM LVLAGGFFLL 26 10 3551 Kallikrein LVLSIALSV 4 9 3552 PAP LVNEILNHM 263 9 3553 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPA 122 9 3554 PSA MLLRLSEPA 118 9 3555 PSA MLLRLSEPAEL 118 11 3556 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPAKI 122 11 3557 PAP MLPGCSPSCPL 343 11 3558 PSM MMNDQLMF 663 8 3559 PSM MMNDQLMFL 663 9 3560 PSM MPEGDLVY 169 8 3561 PSM MPEGDLVYV 169 9 3562 PSM MPEGDLVYVNY 169 11 3563 PSM MVFELANSI 583 9 3564 PSM MVFELANSIV 583 10 3565 PSM MVFELANSIVL 583 11 3566 PSM NIKKFLYNF 69 9 3567 PSM NILNLNGA 257 8 3568 PSM NITPKHNM 51 8 3569 PSM NITPKHNMKA 51 10 3570 PSM NITPKHNMKAF 51 11 3571 PAP NLAALFPPEGV 119 11 3572 PSM NLLHETDSA 3 9 3573 PSM NLLHETDSAV 3 10 3574 PSM NLLHETDSAVA 3 11 3575 PSM NLNGAGDPL 260 9 3576 PSM NMKAFLDEL 57 9 3577 PSM NMKAFLDELKA 57 11 3578 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSL 102 10 3579 PAP NPILLWQPI 133 9 3580 PAP NPILLWQPIPV 133 11 3581 PSM NPIVLRMM 657 8 3582 PSM NVGPGFTGNF 328 10 3583 PSM NVIGTLRGA 357 9 3584 PSM NVIGTLRGAV 357 10 3585 PSM NVSDIVPPF 153 9 3586 PSM NVSDIVPPFSA 153 11 3587 PAP PIDTFPTDPI 49 10 3588 PSM PIGYYDAQKL 296 10 3589 PSM PIGYYDAQKLL 296 11 3590 PAP PIKESSWPQGF 57 11 3591 PAP PILLWQPI 134 8 3592 PAP PILLWQPIPV 134 10 3593 PAP PIPVHTVPL 140 9 3594 PSM PIVLRMMNDQL 658 11 3595 PAP PLERFAEL 352 8 3596 PAP PLERFAELV 352 9 3597 PSM PLGLPDRPF 678 9 3598 PSM PLGLPDRPFY 678 10 3599 PSA PLILSRIV 15 8 3600 PSA PLILSRIVGGW 15 11 3601 Kallikrein PLIQSRIV 19 8 3602 Kallikrein PLIQSRIVGGW 19 11 3603 PAP PLLLARAA 5 8 3604 PAP PLLLARAASL 5 10 3605 PSM PLMYSLVHNL 468 10 3606 PAP PLSEDQLL 147 8 3607 PAP PLSEDQLLY 147 9 3608 PAP PLSEDQLLYL 147 10 3609 PSM PLTPGYPA 267 8 3610 PSM PLTPGYPANEY 267 11 3611 Kallikrein PLVCNGVL 216 8 3612 PSA PLVCNGVL 212 8 3613 Kallikrein PLVCNGVLQGI 216 11 3614 PSA PLVGNGVLQGI 212 11 3615 PAP PLYCESVHNF 212 10 3616 PSA PLYDMSLL 95 8 3617 PSM PLYHSVYETY 550 10 3618 Kallikrein PLYNMSLL 99 8 3619 PSM PMFKYHLTV 568 9 3620 PSM PMFKYHLTVA 568 10 3621 PSM PPDSSWRGSL 314 10 3622 PAP PPEGVSIW 125 8 3623 PAP PPEGVSIWNPI 125 11 3624 PSM PPFSAFSPQGM 159 11 3625 PSM PPGYENVSDI 148 10 3626 PSM PPGYENVSDIV 148 11 3627 PSM PPPGYENV 147 8 3628 PSM PPPGYENVSDI 147 11 3629 PSM PPPPGYENV 146 9 3630 PAP PPYASCHL 308 8 3631 PAP PPYASCHLTEL 308 11 3632 PAP PQDWSTECM 365 9 3633 PSM PQEMKTYSV 619 9 3634 PSM PQEMKTYSVSF 619 11 3635 PAP PQGFGQLTQL 64 10 3636 PSM PQGMPEGDL 166 9 3637 PSM PQGMPEGDLV 166 10 3638 PSM PQGMPEGDLVY 166 11 3639 PSA PQKVTKFM 185 8 3640 PSA PQKVTKFML 185 9 364I PSA PQKVTKFMLCA 185 11 3642 PSM PQSGAAVV 388 8 3643 PSM PQSGAAVVHEI 388 11 3644 Kallikrein PQWVLTAA 57 8 3645 PSA PQWVLTAA 53 8 3646 PSA PQWVLTAAHCI 53 11 3647 Kallikrein PQWVLTAAHCL 57 11 3648 PSM PVHPIGYY 293 8 3649 PSM PVHPIGYYDA 293 10 3650 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPL 91 10 3651 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPLY 91 11 3652 PAP QIPSYKKL 276 8 3653 PAP QIPSYKKLI 276 9 3654 PAP QIPSYKKLIM 276 10 3655 PAP QIPSYKKLIMY 276 11 3656 PSM QIQSQWKEF 95 9 3657 PSM QIQSQWKEFGL 95 11 3658 PSM QIYVAAFTV 731 9 3659 PSM QIYVAAFTVQA 731 11 3660 PSM QLAGAKGV 218 8 3661 PSM QLAGAKGVI 218 9 3662 PSM QLAGAKGVIL 218 10 3663 PSM QLAGAKGVILY 218 11 3664 PSM QLAKQIQSQW 91 10 3665 PAP QLGMEQHY 72 8 3666 PAP QLGMEQHYEL 72 10 3667 PSM QLMFLERA 667 8 3668 PSM QLMFLERAF 667 9 3669 PSM QLMFLERAFI 667 10 3670 PAP QLTQLGMEQHY 69 11 3671 PAP QMALDVYNGL 297 10 3672 PAP QMALDVYNGLL 297 11 3673 PAP QPIPVHTV 139 8 3674 PAP QPIPVHTVPL 139 10 3675 Kallikrein QPWQVAVY 36 8 3676 PSA QPWQVLVA 32 8 3677 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGW 39 9 3678 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGWA 39 10 3679 PSA QVFQVSHSF 84 9 3680 PSA QVHPQKVTKF 182 10 3681 PSA QVHPQKVTKFM 182 11 3682 PSA QVLVASRGRA 35 10 3683 PSA QVLVASRGRAV 35 11 3684 PSM QVRGGMVF 578 8 3685 PSM QVRGGMVFEL 578 10 3686 PSM QVRGGMVFELA 578 11 3687 PSA QVSHSFPHPL 87 10 3688 PSA QVSHSFPHPLY 87 11 3689 Kallikrein QVWLGRHNL 72 9 3690 Kallikrein QVWLGRHNLF 72 10 3691 PAP QVYIRSTDV 101 9 3692 PSM RISKLGSGNDF 511 11 3693 PSM RIYNVIGTL 354 9 3694 PSM RLGIASGRA 527 9 3695 PSM RLGIASGRARY 527 11 3696 PAP RLHPYKDF 180 8 3697 PAP RLHPYKDFI 180 9 3698 PAP RLHPYKDFIA 180 10 3699 PSM RLLQERGV 440 8 3700 PSM RLLQERGVA 440 9 3701 PSM RLLQERGVAY 440 10 3702 PSM RLLQERGVAYI 440 11 3703 PSM RLQDFDKSNPI 649 11 3704 PAP RLQGGVLV 257 8 3705 PAP RLQGGVLVNEI 257 11 3706 PSA RLSEPAEL 121 8 3707 PSA RLSEPAELTDA 121 11 3708 Kallikrein RLSEPAKI 125 8 3709 Kallikrein RLSEPAKITDV 125 11 3710 PSM RMMNDQLM 662 8 3711 PSM RMMNDQLMF 662 9 3712 PSM RMMNDQLMFL 662 10 3713 Kallikrein RPDEDSSHDL 112 10 3714 Kallikrein RPDEDSSHDLM 112 11 3715 PSM RPFYRHVI 684 8 3716 PSM RPFYRHVIY 684 9 3717 PSM RPFYRHVIYA 684 10 3718 PSA RPGDDSSHDL 108 10 3719 PSA RPGDDSSHDLM 108 11 3720 PSM RPRRTILF 411 8 3721 PSM RPRRTILFA 411 9 3722 PSM RPRRTILFASW 411 11 3723 Kallikrein RPRSLQCV 167 8 3724 Kallikrein RPRSLQCVSL 167 10 3725 PSM RPRWLCAGA 17 9 3726 PSM RPRWLCAGAL 17 10 3727 PSM RPRWLCAGALV 17 11 3728 PSA RPSLYTKV 235 8 3729 PSA RPSLYTKVV 235 9 3730 PSA RPSLYTKVVHY 235 11 3731 PSM RQIYVAAF 730 8 3732 PSM RQIYVAAFTV 730 10 3733 PSM RVDCTPLM 463 8 3734 PSM RVDCTPLMY 463 9 3735 PSM RVDCTPLMYSL 463 11 3736 Kallikrein RVPVSHSF 89 8 3737 Kallikrein SIALSVGCTGA 7 11 3738 PSM SIEGNYTL 455 8 3739 PSM SIEGNYTLRV 455 10 3740 Kallikrein SIEPEEFL 159 8 3741 PSA SIEPEEFL 155 8 3742 PSM SIINEDGNEI 129 10 3743 PSM SIINEDGNEIF 129 11 3744 PSM SIPVHPIGY 291 9 3745 PSM SIPVHPIGYY 291 10 3746 PSM SISMKHPQEM 613 10 3747 PSM SIVLPFDCRDY 590 11 3748 PAP SIWNPILL 130 8 3749 PAP SIWNPILLW 130 9 3750 PSM SLFEPPPPGY 142 10 3751 PSA SLFHPEDTGQV 75 11 3752 PSM SLFSAVKNF 631 9 3753 PAP SLGFLFLL 15 8 3754 PAP SLGFLFLLF 15 9 3755 PAP SLGFLFLLFF 15 10 3756 PAP SLGFLFLLFFW 15 11 3757 Kallikrein SLHLLSNDM 175 9 3758 Kallikrein SLHLLSNDMCA 175 11 3759 PSM SLKVPYNV 322 8 3760 Kallikrein SLLKHQSL 104 8 3761 PSA SLLKNRFL 100 8 3762 PAP SLLSLYGI 242 8 3763 Kallikrein SLQCVSLHL 170 9 3764 Kallikrein SLQCVSLHLL 170 10 3765 PAP SLSLGFLF 13 8 3766 PAP SUSLGFLFL 13 9 3767 PAP SLSLGFLFLL 13 10 3768 PAP SLSLGFLFLLF 13 11 3769 PSM SLVHNLTKEL 472 10 3770 PSA SLYTKVVHY 237 9 3771 PSM SMKHPQEM 615 8 3772 PSM SMKHPQEMKTY 615 11 3773 PSM SPDEGFEGKSL 483 11 3774 PSM SPEFSGMPRI 503 10 3775 PAP SPIDTFPTDPI 48 11 3776 PSM SPQGMPEGDL 165 10 3777 PSM SPQGMPEGDLV 165 11 3778 PAP SPSCPLERF 348 9 3779 PAP SPSCPLERFA 348 10 3780 PSM SPSPEFSGM 501 9 3781 Kallikrein SQPWQVAV 35 8 3782 Kallikrein SQPWQVAVY 35 9 3783 PSA SQPWQVLV 31 8 3784 PSA SQPWQVLVA 31 9 3785 Kallikrein SQVWLGRHNL 71 10 3786 Kallikrein SQVWLGRHNLF 71 11 3787 PSM SQWKEFGL 98 8 3788 PSM SQWKEFGLDSV 98 11 3789 PSM SVELAHYDV 107 9 3790 PSM SVELAHYDVL 107 10 3791 PSM SVELAHYDVLL 107 11 3792 Kallikrein SVGCTGAV 11 8 3793 Kallikrein SVGCTGAVPL 11 10 3794 Kallikrein SVGCTGAVPLI 11 11 3795 PAP SVHNFTLPSW 217 10 3796 PAP SVHNFTLPSWA 217 11 3797 PSA SVILLGRHSL 67 10 3798 PSA SVILLGRHSLF 67 11 3799 PAP SVLAKELKF 29 9 3800 PAP SVLAKELKFV 29 10 3801 PSM SVSFDSLF 626 8 3802 PSM SVSFDSLFSA 626 10 3803 PSM SVSFDSLFSAV 626 11 3804 PSA SVTWIGAA 7 8 3805 PSA SVTWIGAAPL 7 10 3806 PSA SVTWIGAAPLI 7 11 3807 PSM SVYETYEL 554 8 3808 PSM SVYETYELV 554 9 3809 PSM TILFASWDA 415 9 3810 PAP TLGKLSGL 190 8 3811 PAP TLKSEEFQKRL 171 11 3812 PAP TLMSAMTNL 112 9 3813 PAP TLMSAMTNLA 112 10 3814 PAP TLMSAMTNLAA 112 11 3815 PAP TLPSWATEDTM 222 11 3816 PSM TLRGAVEPDRY 361 11 3817 PSM TLRVDCTPL 461 9 3818 PSM TLRVDCTPLM 461 10 3819 PSM TLRVDCTPLMY 461 11 3820 PSA TLSVTWIGA 5 9 3821 PSA TLSVTWIGAA 5 10 3822 PAP TMTKLREL 231 8 3823 PAP TMTKLRELSEL 231 11 3824 PSM TPGYPANEY 269 9 3825 PSM TPGYPANEYA 269 10 3826 PSM TPGYPANEYAY 269 11 3827 PSM TPKHNMKA 53 8 3828 PSM TPKHNMKAF 53 9 3829 PSM TPKHNMKAFL 53 10 3830 PSA TPKKLQCV 163 8 3831 PSA TPKKLQCVDL 163 10 3832 PSM TPLMYSLV 467 8 3833 PSM TPLMYSLVHNL 467 11 3834 Kallikrein TQEPALGTTCY 143 11 3835 PSA TQEPALGTTCY 139 11 3836 PAP TQHEPYPL 335 8 3837 PAP TQHEPYPLM 335 9 3838 PAP TQHEPYPLML 335 10 3839 PAP TQIPSYKKL 275 9 3840 PAP TQIPSYKKLI 275 10 3841 PAP TQIPSYKKLIM 275 11 3842 PSM TQKVKMHI 339 8 3843 PAP TQLGMEQHY 71 9 3844 PAP TQLGMEQHYEL 71 11 3845 PSM TVAQVRGGM 575 9 3846 PSM TVAQVRGGMV 575 10 3847 PSM TVAQVRGGMVF 575 11 3848 PAP TVPLSEDQL 145 9 3849 PAP TVPLSEDQLL 145 10 3850 PAP TVPLSEDQLLY 145 11 3851 PSM TVQAAAETL 738 9 3852 PAP TVSGLQMA 292 8 3853 PAP TVSGLQMAL 292 9 3854 PAP TVSGLQMALDV 292 11 3855 PSM VIARYGKV 201 8 3856 PSM VIARYGKVF 201 9 3857 PSM VIGTLRGA 358 8 3858 PSM VIGTLRGAV 358 9 3859 PSM VILGGHRDSW 372 10 3860 PSM VILGGHRDSWV 372 11 3861 PSA VILLGRHSL 68 9 3862 PSA VILLGRHSLF 68 10 3863 PSM VILYSDPA 225 8 3864 PSM VILYSDPADY 225 10 3865 PSM VILYSDPADYF 225 11 3866 PAP VIPQDWSTECM 363 11 3867 PSA VISNDVCA 174 8 3868 PSA VISNDVCAQV 174 10 3869 PSM VIYAPSSHNKY 690 11 3870 PSM VLAGGFFL 27 8 3871 PSM VLAGGFFLL 27 9 3872 PSM VLAGGFFLLGF 27 11 3873 PAP VLAKELKF 30 8 3874 PAP VLAKELKFV 30 9 3875 PAP VLAKELKFVTL 30 11 3876 Kallikrein VLGLPTQEPA 138 10 3877 Kallikrein VLGLPTQEPAL 138 11 3878 PSM VLPFDCRDY 592 9 3879 PSM VLPFDGRDYA 592 10 3880 PSM VLPFDCRDYAV 592 11 3881 Kallikrein VLQGITSW 222 8 3882 PSA VLQGITSW 218 8 3883 PSM VLRKYADKI 603 9 3884 PSM VLRKYADKIY 603 10 3885 PSM VLRMMNDQL 660 9 3886 PSM VLRMMNDQLM 660 10 3887 PSM VLRMMNDQLMF 660 11 3888 Kallikrein VLSIALSV 5 8 3889 PSA VLTAAHCI 56 8 3890 Kallikrein VLTAAHCL 60 8 3891 PSA VLVASRGRA 36 9 3892 PSA VLVASRGRAV 36 10 3893 Kallikrein VLVHPQWV 53 8 3894 PSA VLVHPQWV 49 8 3895 Kallikrein VLVHPQWVL 53 9 3896 PSA VLVHPQWVL 49 9 3897 Kallikrein VLVHPQWVLTA 53 11 3898 PSA VLVHPQWVLTA 49 11 3899 PAP VLVNEILNHM 262 10 3900 PSA VMDLPTQEPA 134 10 3901 PSA VMDLPTQEPAL 134 11 3902 Kallikrein VPLIQSRI 18 8 3903 Kallikrein VPLIQSRIV 18 9 3904 PAP VPLSEDQL 146 8 3905 PAP VPLSEDQLL 146 9 3906 PAP VPLSEDQLLY 146 10 3907 PAP VPLSEDQLLYL 146 11 3908 Kallikrein VPVSHSFPHPL 90 11 3909 PSM VPYNVGPGF 325 9 3910 PSM VQAAAETL 739 8 3911 PSM VQAAAETLSEV 739 11 3912 PSM VQRGNILNL 253 9 3913 PSA VVFLTLSV 1 8 3914 PSA VVFLTLSVTW 1 10 3915 PSA VVFLTLSVTWI 1 11 3916 PSM VVHEIVRSF 394 9 3917 Kallikrein VVHYRKWI 246 8 3918 PSA VVHYRKWI 242 8 3919 PSM VVLRKYADKI 602 10 3920 PSM VVLRKYADKIY 602 11 3921 PSA WIGAAPLI 10 8 3922 PSA WIGAAPLIL 10 9 3923 Kallikrein WIKDTIAA 252 8 3924 PSA WIKDTIVA 248 8 3925 PSM WLCAGALV 20 8 3926 PSM WLGAGALVL 20 9 3927 PSM WLCAGALVLA 20 10 3928 PAP WLDRSVLA 25 8 3929 PAP WLDRSVLAKEL 25 11 3930 Kallikrein WLGRHNLF 74 8 3931 PAP WPQGFGQL 63 8 3932 PAP WPQGFGQLTQL 63 11 3933 PAP WQPIPVHTV 138 9 3934 PAP WQPIPVHTVPL 138 11 3935 Kallikrein WQVAVYSHGW 38 10 3936 Kallikrein WQVAVYSHGWA 38 11 3937 PSA WQVLVASRGRA 34 11 3938 PSA WVLTAAHCI 55 9 3939 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCL 59 9 3940 PSM YINADSSI 449 8 3941 PAP YIRKRYRKF 84 9 3942 PAP YIRKRYRKFL 84 10 3943 PAP YIRSTDVDRTL 103 11 3944 PAP YLPFRNCPRF 155 10 3945 PSM YPANEYAY 272 8 3946 PSM YPLYHSVY 549 8 3947 PSM YPLYHSVYETY 549 11 3948 PSM YPNKTHPNY 119 9 3949 PSM YPNKTHPNYI 119 10 3950 PSM YVAAFTVQA 733 9 3951 PSM YVAAFTVQAA 733 10 3952 PSM YVAAFTVQAAA 733 11 3953 PSM YVILGGHRDSW 371 11 3954 PSM YVNYARTEDF 176 10 3955 PSM YVNYARTEDFF 176 11 3956

TABLE XV Prostate A01 Motif Peptides with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id Protein Sequence Position Acids A*0101 No. PSM ADSSIEGNY 452 9 3957 PSM AGAKGVILY 220 9 3958 PSM AGDPLTPGY 264 9 0.0099 3959 PSM AGESFPGIY 701 9 0.0040 3960 PSM APSSHNKY 693 8 3961 PAP ASCHLTELY 311 9 0.7700 3962 PSM CRDYAVVLRKY 597 11 3963 PSM CSGKIVIARY 196 10 0.0160 3964 PSM DSSIEGNY 453 8 3965 PSM DSVELAHY 106 8 3966 PSM DYAVVLRKY 599 9 3967 PSM EGDLVYVNY 171 9 0.0024 3968 PSM ELAHYDVLLSY 109 11 3969 PAP ELSELSLLSLY 237 11 3970 PAP ELSLLSLY 240 8 3971 Kallikrein EPALGTTCY 145 9 0.0011 3972 PSA EPALGTTCY 141 9 0.0011 3973 PAP ESYKHEQVY 95 9 0.0980 3974 PSM ETNKFSGY 542 8 3975 PSM ETNKFSGYPLY 542 11 3976 PSM ETYELVEKFY 557 10 0.0260 3977 PSM FSGYPLYHSVY 546 11 3978 PSM FYDPMFKY 565 8 3979 PSM GESFPGIY 702 8 3980 PSM GFEGKSLY 487 8 3981 PSM GIASGRARY 529 9 0.0025 3982 PSM GLDSVELAHY 104 10 0.4800 3983 PAP GMEQHYELGEY 74 11 3984 PSM GMPEGDLVY 168 9 0.0001 3985 PAP HMKRATQIPSY 270 11 3986 Kallikrein HSFPHPLY 94 8 0.0260 3987 PSA HSFPHPLY 90 8 0.0260 3988 Kallikrein HSQPWQVAVY 34 10 3989 PSM HSTNEVTRIY 347 10 0.0048 3990 PSM HYDVLLSY 112 8 3991 PSM IASGRARY 530 8 3992 PSM IHSTNEVTRIY 346 11 3993 PSM INADSSIEGNY 450 11 3994 PAP IPSYKKLIMY 277 10 0.5700 3995 PAP IWSKVYDPLY 205 10 0.0012 3996 PSM IYAPSSHNKY 691 10 3997 PSM KAENIKKFLY 66 10 0.0001 3998 PSM KFSGYPLY 545 8 3999 PAP KGEYFVEMY 322 9 3.4000 4000 PAP KGEYFVEMYY 322 10 0.0180 4001 Kallikrein KHSQPWQVAVY 33 11 4002 Kallikrein KPAVYTKVVHY 239 11 4003 PAP KRATQIPSY 272 9 0.0011 4004 PSM KYAGESFPGIY 699 11 4005 PSM LDSVELAHY 105 9 4006 PSM LFEPPPPGY 143 9 0.0010 4007 PAP LGEYIRKRY 81 9 0.7800 4008 PSM LKAENIKKFLY 65 11 4009 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARAY 178 11 4010 PAP LNESYKHEQVY 93 11 4011 Kallikrein LPEKPAVY 236 8 4012 PSA LPERPSLY 232 8 0.0002 4013 PSM LPSIPVHPIGY 289 11 4014 PSM LQERGVAY 442 8 4015 PAP LSEDQLLY 148 8 4016 PAP LSELSLLSLY 238 10 12.0000 4017 Kallikrein LSNDMCARAY 179 10 4018 PSM LSYPNKTHPNY 117 11 4019 PAP LTELYFEKGEY 315 11 4020 PSM LTPGYPANEY 268 10 0.0082 4021 PAP LTQLGMEQHY 70 10 0.6200 4022 PSM LYSDPADY 227 8 4023 PSM MPEGDLVY 169 8 4024 PSM MPEGDLVYVNY 169 11 4025 PSM NADSSIEGNY 451 10 0.4300 4026 PSM NCSGKIVIARY 195 11 4027 PAP NESYKHEQVY 94 10 0.0033 4028 PSM NGAGDPLTPGY 262 11 4029 PSM NWETNKFSGY 540 10 4030 Kallikrein PCALPEKPAVY 233 11 4031 PSA PCALPERPSLY 229 11 4032 PSM PDEGFEGKSLY 484 11 4033 PAP PLSEDQLLY 147 9 1.2000 4034 PSM PSIPVHPIGY 290 10 4035 PSM PSIPVHPIGYY 290 11 4036 PSA PSLYTKVVHY 236 10 0.0010 4037 PAP PSYKKLIMY 278 9 0.0031 4038 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPLY 91 11 4039 PAP PYASCHLTELY 309 11 4040 PSM QLAGAKGVILY 218 11 4041 PSA QVSHSFPHPLY 87 11 4042 PSM RGAVEPDRY 363 9 0.0001 4043 PSM RGSLKVPY 320 8 4044 PAP RNETQHEPY 332 9 0.0002 4045 PSA RPSLYTKVVHY 235 11 4046 PSM RVDCTPLMY 463 9 11.0000 4047 PAP SEEFQKRLHPY 174 11 4048 Kallikrein SHSFPHPLY 93 9 0.0011 4049 PSA SHSFPHPLY 89 9 0.0011 4050 PSM SMKHPQEMKTY 615 11 4051 Kallikrein SNDMCARAY 180 9 4052 PSM SSWRGSLKVPY 317 11 4053 PSM STNEVTRIY 348 9 0.0430 4054 PSM TNEVTRIY 349 8 4055 Kallikrein TQEPALGTTCY 143 11 0.0190 4056 PSA TQEPALGTTCY 139 11 0.0190 4057 PSM TSLFEPPPPGY 141 11 4058 PSM TYELVEKFY 558 9 0.0010 4059 PAP VSGLQMALDVY 293 11 4060 Kallikrein VSHSFPHPLY 92 10 0.1500 4061 PSA VSHSFPHPLY 88 10 0.1500 4062 PSM WGEVKRQIY 725 9 0.0010 4063 PAP WSKVYDPLY 206 9 0.0046 4064 PAP YASCHLTELY 310 10 0.5500 4065 PSM YFAPGVKSY 234 9 4066 PSM YHSVYETY 552 8 4067 PSM YPANEYAY 272 8 4068

TABLE XVI Prostate A03 Motif Peotides with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids A*0301 No. PSM AAAETLSEVA 741 10 4069 PSM AAETLSEVA 742 9 4070 PSM AAFTVQAA 735 8 4071 PSM AAFTVQAAA 735 9 4072 PSA AAHCIRNK 59 8 4073 PSA AAPLILSR 13 8 4074 PAP AAPLLLAR 3 8 4075 PAP AAPLLLARA 3 9 4076 PAP AAPLLLARAA 3 10 4077 PAP AASLSLGF 11 8 4078 PAP AASLSLGFLF 11 10 4079 PSM AAVVHEIVR 392 9 4080 PSM AAVVHEIVRSF 392 11 4081 PSM ADKIYSISMK 608 10 4082 PSM ADKIYSISMKH 608 11 4083 PSM ADSSIEGNY 452 9 4084 PSM ADYFAPGVK 232 9 0.0006 4085 PSM ADYFAPGVKSY 232 11 4086 PSM AFIDPLGLPDR 674 11 4087 PSM AFLDELKA 60 8 4088 PSM AFTVQAAA 736 8 4089 PSM AGAKGVILY 220 9 4090 PSM AGALVLAGGF 23 10 4091 PSM AGALVLAGGFF 23 11 4092 PSM AGDPLTPGY 264 9 4093 PSM AGDPLTPGYPA 264 11 4094 PSM AGESFPGIY 701 9 4095 PSM AGESFPGIYDA 701 11 4096 PSM AGGFFLLGF 29 9 4097 PSM AGGFFLLGFLF 29 11 4098 Kallikrein AGLWTGGK 199 8 4099 PSA AGRWTGGK 195 8 4100 PSM AGTEQNFQLA 84 10 4101 PSM AGTEQNFQLAK 84 11 4102 PSM ALFDIESK 711 8 4103 Kallikrein ALGTTCYA 147 8 4104 PSA ALGTTCYA 143 8 4105 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVY 235 9 4106 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVYTK 235 11 4107 PSA ALPERPSLY 231 9 0.0170 4108 PSA ALPERPSLYTK 231 11 4109 Kallikrein ALSVGCTGA 9 9 4110 PSM ALVLAGGF 25 8 4111 PSM ALVLAGGFF 25 9 4112 PAP AMTNLAALF 116 9 4113 PAP ASCHLTELY 311 9 0.0002 4114 PAP ASCHLTELYF 311 10 4115 PSM ASGRARYTK 531 9 0.0086 4116 PSM ASKFSERLQDF 643 11 4117 PAP ASLSLGFLF 12 9 4118 PSM ASWDAEEF 419 8 4119 PSM ATARRPRWLCA 13 11 4120 PAP ATEDTMTK 227 8 0.0003 4121 PAP ATEDTMTKLR 227 10 4122 PAP ATLGKLSGLH 189 10 4123 PSM ATNITPKH 49 8 4124 PSM ATNITPKHNMK 49 11 4125 PAP ATQIPSYK 274 8 0.0180 4126 PAP ATQIPSYKK 274 9 0.1000 4127 PSM AVATARRPR 11 9 4128 PSA AVCGGVLVH 44 9 4129 PSM AVGLPSIPVH 286 10 4130 PSM AVKNFTEIA 635 9 4131 PSM AVKNFTEIASK 635 11 4132 Kallikrein AVPLIQSR 17 8 4133 PSM AVVHEIVR 393 8 4134 PSM AVVHEIVRSF 393 10 4135 PSM AVVLRKYA 601 8 4136 PSM AVVLRKYADK 601 10 0.0026 4137 Kallikrein AVYSHGWA 41 8 4138 Kallikrein AVYSHGWAM 41 9 4139 Kallikrein AVYTKVVH 241 8 4140 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHY 241 9 4141 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHYR 241 10 4142 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHYRK 241 11 4143 PSM CAGALVLA 22 8 4144 PSM CAGALVLAGGF 22 11 4145 Kallikrein CAGLWTGGK 198 9 4146 PSA CAGRWTGGK 194 9 0.0006 4147 Kallikrein CALPEKPA 234 8 4148 Kallikrein CALPEKPAVY 234 10 4149 PSA CALPERPSLY 230 10 4150 PSA CAQVHPQK 180 8 4151 PSA CAQVHPQKVTK 180 11 4152 Kallikrein CARAYSEK 184 8 4153 PSM CSGKIVIA 196 8 4154 PSM CSGKIVIAR 196 9 4155 PSM CSGKIVIARY 196 10 0.0600 4156 PAP CSPSCPLER 347 9 0.0040 4157 PAP CSPSCPLERF 347 10 4158 PAP CSPSCPLEREA 347 11 4159 Kallikrein CTGAVPLIQSR 14 11 4160 PSM CTPLMYSLVH 466 10 4161 PSM DALFDIESK 710 9 0.0006 4162 PSM DAQKLLEK 301 8 4163 PSM DCRDYAVVLR 596 10 4164 PSM DCRDYAVVLRK 596 11 4165 PSM DCTPLMYSLVH 465 11 4166 PSA DDSSHDLMLLR 111 11 4167 PSM DFDKSNPIVLR 652 11 4168 PSM DFEVFFQR 520 8 4169 PSM DFFKLERDMK 184 10 4170 PAP DFIATLGK 186 8 4171 PSM DGNEIFNTSLF 134 11 4172 PSM DIESKVDPSK 714 10 0.0003 4173 PSM DIESKVDPSKA 714 11 4174 PSM DIVPPFSA 156 8 4175 PSM DIVPPFSAF 156 9 4176 PAP DLFGIWSK 201 8 4177 PAP DLFGIWSKVY 201 10 4178 PSA DLHVISNDVCA 171 11 4179 Kallikrein DLMLLRLSEPA 120 11 4180 PSA DLMLLRLSEPA 116 11 4181 PSA DLPTQEPA 136 8 4182 PSM DLVYVNYA 173 8 4183 PSM DLVYVNYAR 173 9 4184 Kallikrein DMCARAYSEK 182 10 4185 PSM DMKINCSGK 191 9 4186 PSA DMSLLKNR 98 8 0.0003 4187 PSA DMSLLKNRF 98 9 4188 PSA DMSLLKNRFLR 98 11 4189 PSM DSAVATAR 9 8 4190 PSM DSAVATARR 9 9 4191 PSM DSAVATARRPR 9 11 4192 PSM DSLFSAVK 630 8 4193 PSM DSLFSAVKNF 630 10 4194 Kallikrein DSSHDLMLLR 116 10 4195 PSA DSSHDLMLLR 112 10 4196 PSM DSSIEGNY 453 8 4197 PSM DSSIEGNYTLR 453 11 4198 PSM DSSWRGSLK 316 9 0.0032 4199 PSM DSVELAHY 106 8 4200 PAP DTFPTDPIK 51 9 0.0001 4201 Kallikrein DTGQRVPVSH 85 10 4202 PSA DTGQVFQVSH 81 10 4203 PAP DTTVSGLQMA 290 10 4204 PSA DVCAQVHPQK 178 10 0.0007 4205 PAP DVDRTLMSA 108 9 4206 PSM DVLLSYPNK 114 9 0.0006 4207 PSM DVLLSYPNKTH 114 11 4208 PAP DVYNGLLPPY 301 10 4209 PAP DVYNGLLPPYA 301 11 4210 PSM EATNITPK 48 8 4211 PSM EATNITPKH 48 9 4212 PSM EAVGLPSIPVH 285 11 4213 PAP ECMTTNSH 371 8 4214 PSM EDFFKLER 183 8 4215 PSM EDFFKLERDMK 183 11 4216 PAP EDQLLYLPF 150 9 4217 PAP EDQLLYLPFR 150 10 4218 Kallikrein EDSSHDLMLLR 115 11 4219 Kallikrein EDTGQRVPVSH 84 11 4220 PSA EDTGQVFQVSH 80 11 4221 PAP EDTMTKLR 229 8 4222 PSM EFGLDSVELA 102 10 4223 PSM EFGLDSVELAH 102 11 4224 PSM EFGLLGSTEWA 425 11 4225 PAP EFQKRLHPY 176 9 4226 PAP EFQKRLHPYK 176 10 4227 PSM EFSGMPRISK 505 10 4228 PSM EGDLVYVNY 171 9 4229 PSM EGDLVYVNYA 171 10 4230 PSM EGDLVYVNYAR 171 11 4231 PSM EGFEGKSLY 486 9 4232 PSM EGKSLYESWTK 489 11 4233 PSM EGWRPRRTILF 408 11 4234 PSM EIASKFSER 641 9 0.0006 4235 PSM EIFNTSLF 137 8 4236 PAP EILNHMKR 266 8 4237 PAP EILNHMKRA 266 9 4238 PSM EIVRSFGTLK 397 10 4239 PSM EIVRSFGTLKK 397 11 4240 PSM ELAHYDVLLSY 109 11 4241 PSM ELANSIVLPF 586 10 4242 PAP ELESETLK 166 8 4243 PAP ELGEYIRK 80 8 4244 PAP ELGEYIRKR 80 9 4245 PAP ELGEYIRKRY 80 10 4246 PAP ELGEYIRKRYR 80 11 4247 PSM ELKAENIK 64 8 4248 PSM ELKAENIKK 64 9 4249 PSM ELKAENIKKF 64 10 4250 PAP ELKFVTLVF 34 9 4251 PAP ELKFVTLVFR 34 10 0.0014 4252 PAP ELKFVTLVFRH 34 11 4253 PSM ELKSPDEGF 480 9 4254 PAP ELSELSLLSLY 237 11 4255 PAP ELSLLSLY 240 8 4256 PAP ELSLLSLYGH 240 11 4257 PSM ELVEKFYDPMF 560 11 4258 PAP ELYFEKGEY 317 9 4259 PAP ELYFEKGEYF 317 10 4260 PSM EMKTYSVSF 621 9 0.0005 4261 PAP EMYYRNETQH 328 10 4262 PAP ESETLKSEEF 168 10 4263 PSM ESFPGIYDA 703 9 4264 PSM ESFPGIYDALF 703 11 4265 PSM ESKVDPSK 716 8 4266 PSM ESKVDPSKA 716 9 4267 PAP ESSWPQGF 60 8 4268 PAP ESYKHEQVY 95 9 0.0002 4269 PAP ESYKHEQVYIR 95 11 4270 PSM ETDSAVATA 7 9 4271 PSM ETDSAVATAR 7 10 4272 PSM ETDSAVATARR 7 11 4273 PAP ETLKSEEF 170 8 4274 PAP ETLKSEEFQK 170 10 0.0004 4275 PAP ETLKSEEFQKR 170 11 4276 PSM ETNKFSGY 542 8 4277 PSM ETNKFSGYPLY 542 11 4278 PSM ETYELVEK 557 8 4279 PSM ETYELVEKF 557 9 4280 PSM ETYELVEKFY 557 10 0.0006 4281 PSM EVFFQRLGIA 522 10 4282 PSM EVKRQIYVA 727 9 4283 PSM EVKRQIYVAA 727 10 4284 PSM EVKRQIYVAAF 727 11 4285 PSM FAPGVKSY 235 8 4286 PSM FASWDAEEF 418 9 4287 PSM FDCRDYAVVLR 595 11 4288 PSM FDIESKVDPSK 713 11 4289 PSM FDKSNPIVLR 653 10 4290 PSM FDSLFSAVK 629 9 4291 PSM FDSLFSAVKNF 629 11 4292 PSM FFKLERDMK 185 9 4293 PSM FFLLGFLF 32 8 4294 PSM FFLLGFLFGWF 32 11 4295 PSM FFQRLGIA 524 8 4296 PSM FFQRLGIASGR 524 11 4297 PAP FFWLDRSVLA 23 10 4298 PAP FFWLDRSVLAK 23 11 4299 PSM FGGIDPQSGA 383 10 4300 PSM FGGIDPQSGAA 383 11 4301 PAP FGIWSKVY 203 8 4302 PSM FGLDSVELA 103 9 4303 PSM FGLDSVELAH 103 10 4304 PSM FGLDSVELAHY 103 11 4305 PSM FGLLGSTEWA 426 10 4306 PSM FGTLKKEGWR 402 10 4307 PSM FGWFIKSSNEA 39 11 4308 PSM FIDPLGLPDR 675 10 4309 PSM FIKSSNEA 42 8 4310 PSM FLDELKAENIK 61 11 4311 PSM FLFGWFIK 37 8 4312 PAP FLFLLFFWLDR 18 11 4313 PAP FLLFFWLDR 20 9 0.0024 4314 PSM FLLGFLFGWF 33 10 4315 PAP FLNESYKH 92 8 4316 PSA FLRPGDDSSH 106 10 4317 PSA FLTLSVTWIGA 3 11 4318 PSM FLYNFTQIPH 73 10 0.0102 4319 PSM FSAVKNFTEIA 633 11 4320 PSM FSERLQDF 646 8 4321 PSM FSERLQDFDK 646 10 0.0003 4322 PSM FSGMPRISK 506 9 4323 PSM FSGYPLYH 546 8 4324 PSM FSGYPLYHSVY 546 11 4325 PSM FSTQKVKMH 337 9 4326 PSM FSTQKVKMHIH 337 11 4327 PSM FTEIASKF 639 8 4328 PSM FTEIASKFSER 639 11 4329 PSM FTGNFSTQK 333 9 4330 PSM FTGNFSTQKVK 333 11 4331 PSM FTQIPHLA 77 8 4332 PAP FVTLVFRH 37 8 4333 PAP FVTLVFRHGDR 37 11 4334 PSA GAAPLILSR 12 9 0.0150 4335 PSM GAAVVHEIVR 391 10 4336 PSM GAGDPLTPGY 263 10 4337 PSM GAKGVILY 221 8 4338 PSM GALVLAGGF 24 9 4339 PSM GALVLAGGFF 24 10 4340 PSM GAVEPDRY 364 8 4341 Kallikrein GAVPLIQSR 16 9 4342 PAP GCSPSCPLER 346 10 4343 PAP GCSPSCPLERF 346 11 4344 PSM GDLVYVNY 172 8 4345 PSM GDLVYVNYA 172 9 4346 PSM GDLVYVNYAR 172 10 4347 PSM GDPLTPGY 265 8 4348 PSM GDPLTPGYPA 265 10 4349 PAP GDRSPIDTF 45 9 4350 PSM GFEGKSLY 487 8 4351 PSM GFFLLGFLF 31 9 0.0005 4352 PSM GFLFGWFIK 36 9 0.0007 4353 PAP GFLFLLFF 17 8 4354 PSM GFTGNFSTQK 332 10 4355 PSM GGFFLLGF 30 8 4356 PSM GGFFLLGFLF 30 10 4357 PSM GGHRDSWVF 375 9 4358 PSM GGIDPQSGA 384 9 4359 PSM GGIDPQSGAA 384 10 4360 PSM GGMVFELA 581 8 4361 PSM GGSAPPDSSWR 310 11 4362 PAP GGVLVNEILNH 260 11 4363 Kallikrein GGWECEKH 27 8 4364 PSA GGWECEKH 23 8 4365 PSM GIASGRAR 529 8 4366 PSM GIASGRARY 529 9 4367 PSM GIASGRARYTK 529 11 4368 PSM GIDPQSGA 385 8 4369 PSM GIDPQSGAA 385 9 4370 PAP GIHKQKEK 248 8 4371 PAP GIHKQKEKSR 248 10 4372 Kallikrein GITSWGPEPCA 225 11 4373 PSA GITSWGSEPCA 221 11 4374 PAP GIWSKVYDPLY 204 11 4375 PSM GLDSVELA 104 8 4376 PSM GLDSVELAH 104 9 4377 PSM GLDSVELAHY 104 10 4378 PAP GLHGQDLF 196 8 4379 PSM GLLGSTEWA 427 9 4380 PAP GLLPPYASCH 305 10 4381 PSM GLPDRPFY 680 8 4382 PSM GLPDRPFYR 680 9 0.0460 4383 PSM GLPDRPFYRH 680 10 4384 PSM GLPSIPVH 288 8 4385 Kallikrein GLPTQEPA 140 8 4386 PAP GLQMALDVY 295 9 4387 PAP GMEQHYELGEY 74 11 4388 PSM GMPEGDLVY 168 9 0.0007 4389 PSM GSAPPDSSWR 311 10 0.0006 4390 PSA GSEPCALPER 226 10 4391 PSM GSGNDFEVF 516 9 4392 PSM GSGNDFEVFF 516 10 4393 Kallikrein GSIEPEEF 158 8 4394 PSA GSIEPEEF 154 8 4395 Kallikrein GSIEPEEFLR 158 10 4396 PSM GSTEWAEENSR 430 11 4397 PSM GTEQNFQLA 85 9 4398 PSM GTEQNFQLAK 85 10 4399 PSM GTLKKEGWR 403 9 4400 PSM GTLKKEGWRPR 403 11 4401 PSM GTLRGAVEPDR 360 11 4402 PSM GVILYSDPA 224 9 4403 PSM GVILYSDPADY 224 11 4404 PAP GVLVNEILNH 261 10 4405 Kallikrein HCGGVLVH 49 8 4406 PAP HDTTVSGLQMA 289 11 4407 PAP HGDRSPIDTF 44 10 4408 PAP HGQDLFGIWSK 198 11 4409 PSM HIHSTNEVTR 345 10 4410 PSM HLAGTEQNF 82 9 4411 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCA 177 9 4412 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCAR 177 10 4413 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCARA 177 11 4414 PAP HLTELYFEK 314 9 0.2700 4415 PSM HLTVAQVR 573 8 4416 PAP HMKRATQIPSY 270 11 4417 Kallikrein HSFPHPLY 94 8 0.0890 4418 PSA HSFPHPLY 90 8 0.0890 4419 Kallikrein HSQPWQVA 34 8 4420 Kallikrein HSQPWQVAVY 34 10 4421 PSA HSQPWQVLVA 30 10 4422 PSM HSTNEVTR 347 8 4423 PSM HSTNEVTRIY 347 10 0.0005 4424 PSA HVISNDVCA 173 9 4425 PSM HVIYAPSSH 689 9 4426 PSM HVIYAPSSHNK 689 11 4427 Kallikrein IALSVGCTGA 8 10 4428 PSM IARYGKVF 202 8 4429 PSM IARYGKVFR 202 9 4430 PSM IASGRARY 530 8 4431 PSM IASGRARYTK 530 10 4432 PSM IASKFSER 642 8 4433 PAP IATLGKLSGLH 188 11 4434 PSM IDPLGLPDR 676 9 4435 PSM IDPLGLPDRPF 676 11 4436 PSM IDPQSGAA 386 8 4437 PSM IDPQSGAAVVH 386 11 4438 PAP IDTFPTDPIK 50 10 4439 PSA IGAAPLILSR 11 10 4440 PSM IGYYDAQK 297 8 4441 PSM IINEDGNEIF 130 10 4442 PSM ILFASWDA 416 8 4443 PSM ILFASWDAEEF 416 11 4444 PSM ILGGHRDSWVF 373 11 4445 PSA ILLGRHSLF 69 9 4446 PSA ILLGRHSLFH 69 10 4447 PAP ILLWQPIPVH 135 10 4448 PAP ILNHMKRA 267 8 4449 PSM ILYSDPADY 226 9 4450 PSM ILYSDPADYF 226 10 4451 PSM ILYSDPADYFA 226 11 4452 PSM ISKLGSGNDF 512 10 4453 PSM ISMKHPQEMK 614 10 0.1900 4454 PSA ISNDVCAQVH 175 10 4455 PSM ITPKHNMK 52 8 4456 PSM ITPKHNMKA 52 9 4457 PSM ITPKHNMKAF 52 10 4458 Kallikrein ITSWGPEPCA 226 10 4459 PSA ITSWGSEPCA 222 10 4460 Kallikrein IYGGWEGEK 25 9 0.0410 4461 PSA IVGGWECEK 21 9 0.0410 4462 Kallikrein IVGGWECEKH 25 10 4463 PSA IVGGWECEKH 21 10 4464 PSM IVIARYGK 200 8 4465 PSM IVIARYGKVF 200 10 4466 PSM IVIARYGKVFR 200 11 4467 PSM IVLPFDCR 591 8 4468 PSM IVLPFDCRDY 591 10 4469 PSM IVLPFDCRDYA 591 11 4470 PSM IVPPFSAF 157 8 4471 PSM IVRSFGTLK 398 9 0.1700 4472 PSM IVRSFGTLKK 398 10 0.0260 4473 PSM KAENIKKF 66 8 4474 PSM KAENIKKFLY 66 10 4475 PSM KAFLDELK 59 8 4476 PSM KAFLDELKA 59 9 4477 PSM KAWGEVKR 723 8 4478 PSM KAWGEVKRQIY 723 11 4479 PAP KDFIATLGK 185 9 0.0006 4480 PAP KFLNESYK 91 8 4481 PAP KFLNESYKH 91 9 4482 PSM KFLYNFTQIPH 72 11 4483 PSA KFMLCAGR 190 8 4484 PSM KFSERLQDF 645 9 4485 PSM KFSERLQDFDK 645 11 4486 PSM KESGYPLY 545 8 4487 PSM KFSGYPLYH 545 9 4488 PAP KFVTLVFR 36 8 4489 PAP KFVTLVFRH 36 9 4490 PSM KFYDPMFK 564 8 4491 PSM KFYDPMFKY 564 9 4492 PSM KFYDPMFKYH 564 10 4493 PAP KGEYFVEMY 322 9 0.0002 4494 PAP KGEYFVEMYY 322 10 0.0057 4495 PAP KGEYFVEMYYR 322 11 4496 PSM KGVILYSDPA 223 10 4497 PSM KINCSGKIVIA 193 11 4498 PSM KIVIARYGK 199 9 0.0740 4499 PSM KIVIARYGKVF 199 11 4500 PSM KIYSISMK 610 8 4501 PSM KIYSISMKH 610 9 0.1800 4502 PSM KLGSGNDF 514 8 4503 PSM KLGSGNDFEVF 514 11 4504 PAP KLIMYSAH 282 8 4505 PSM KLLEKMGGSA 304 10 4506 PSA KLQCVDLH 166 8 4507 PAP KLSGLHGQDLF 193 11 4508 PAP KSEEFQKR 173 8 4509 PAP KSEEFQKRLH 173 10 4510 PSM KSLYESWTK 491 9 0.4000 4511 PSM KSLYESWTKK 491 10 0.3200 4512 PSM KSNPIVLR 655 8 4513 PSM KSPDEGFEGK 482 10 0.0044 4514 PSA KSVILLGR 66 8 4515 PSA KSVILLGRH 66 9 0.0025 4516 PSM KTYSVSFDSLF 623 11 4517 PSM KVFRGNKVK 207 9 0.1600 4518 PSM KVFRGNKVKNA 207 11 4519 PSM KVKNAQLA 213 8 4520 PSM KVKNAQLAGA 213 10 4521 PSM KVKNAQLAGAK 213 11 4522 Kallikrein KVLGLPTQEPA 137 11 4523 PSA KVMDLPTQEPA 133 11 4524 PSM KVPYNVGPGF 324 10 4525 Kallikrein KVTEFMLCA 191 9 4526 PSA KVTKFMLCA 187 9 4527 PSA KVTKFMLCAGR 187 11 4528 Kallikrein KVVHYRKWIK 245 10 0.0450 4529 PSA KVVHYRKWIK 241 10 0.0450 4530 PSM LAGAKGVILY 219 10 0.0004 4531 PSM LAGGFELLGF 28 10 4532 PSM LAGTEQNF 83 8 4533 PSM LAGTEQNFQLA 83 11 4534 PSM LAHYDVLLSY 110 10 4535 PSM LAKQIQSQWK 92 10 0.0031 4536 PSM LANSIVLPF 587 9 4537 PAP LARAASLSLGF 8 11 4538 PSM LCAGALVLA 21 9 4539 Kallikrein LCAGLWTGGK 197 10 4540 PSA LCAGRWTGGK 193 10 4541 PSM LDELKAENIK 62 10 4542 PSM LDELKAENIKK 62 11 4543 PAP LDRSVLAK 26 8 4544 PAP LDRSVLAKELK 26 11 4545 PSM LDSVELAH 105 8 4546 PSM LDSVELAHY 105 9 4547 PAP LDVYNGLLPPY 300 11 4548 PSM LFASWDAEEF 417 10 4549 Kallikrein LFEPEDTGQR 80 10 4550 PSM LFEPPPPGY 143 9 4551 PAP LFFWLDRSVLA 22 11 4552 PAP LFGIWSKVY 202 9 4553 PSA LFHPEDTGQVF 76 11 4554 PAP LFLLFFWLDR 19 10 4555 PSM LFSAVKNF 632 8 4556 PAP LGEYIRKR 81 8 4557 PAP LGEYIRKRY 81 9 0.0002 4558 PAP LGEYIRKRYR 81 10 0.0003 4559 PAP LGEYIRKRYRK 81 11 4560 PSM LGFLFGWF 35 8 4561 PSM LGFLFGWFIK 35 10 0.0007 4562 PAP LGFLFLLF 16 8 4563 PAP LGFLFLLFF 16 9 4564 PSM LGGHRDSWVF 374 10 4565 PSM LGIASGRA 528 8 4566 PSM LGIASGRAR 528 9 0.0006 4567 PSM LGIASGRARY 528 10 4568 PAP LGKLSGLH 191 8 4569 PSM LGLPDRPF 679 8 4570 PSM LGLPDRPFY 679 9 4571 PSM LGLPDRPFYR 679 10 4572 PSM LGLPDRPFYRH 679 11 4573 Kallikrein LGLPTQEPA 139 9 4574 PSA LGRHSLFH 71 8 4575 PSM LGSGNDFEVF 515 10 4576 PSM LGSGNDFEVFF 515 11 4577 PSM LLEKMGGSA 305 9 0.0006 4578 PAP LLFFWLDR 21 8 4579 PSM LLGFLFGWF 34 9 4580 PSM LLGFLFGWFIK 34 11 4581 PSA LLGRHSLF 70 8 4582 PSA LLGRHSLFH 70 9 4583 PSM LLGSTEWA 428 8 4584 PSM LLHETDSA 4 8 4585 PSM LLHETDSAVA 4 10 0.0005 4586 Kallikrein LLKHQSLR 105 8 4587 PSA LLKNRFLR 101 8 4588 PAP LLPPYASCH 306 9 0.0010 4589 PSM LLQERGVA 441 8 4590 PSM LLQERGVAY 441 9 4591 Kallikrein LLRLSEPA 123 8 4592 PSA LLRLSEPA 119 8 4593 Kallikrein LLRLSEPAK 123 9 4594 PAP LLSLYGIH 243 8 4595 PAP LLSLYGIHK 243 9 0.0760 4596 PAP LLSLYGIHKQK 243 11 4597 Kallikrein LLSNDMCA 178 8 4598 Kallikrein LLSNDMCAR 178 9 4599 Kallikrein LLSNDMGARA 178 10 4600 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARAY 178 11 4601 PSM LLSYPNKTH 116 9 0.0006 4602 PAP LLWQPIPVH 136 9 4603 PAP LLYLPFRNCPR 153 11 4604 PSM LMFLERAF 668 8 4605 Kallikrein LMLLRLSEPA 121 10 4606 PSA LMLLRLSEPA 117 10 4607 Kallikrein LMLLRLSEPAK 121 11 4608 PAP LMSAMTNLA 113 9 0.0005 4609 PAP LMSAMTNLAA 113 10 0.0005 4610 PSM LMYSLVHNLTK 469 11 4611 PAP LSEDQLLY 148 8 4612 PAP LSEDQLLYLPF 148 11 4613 PAP LSELSLLSLY 238 10 0.0005 4614 PSA LSEPAELTDA 122 10 4615 PAP LSGLHGQDLF 194 10 4616 PAP LSLGFLFLLF 14 10 4617 PAP LSLGFLFLLFF 14 11 4618 PAP LSLLSLYGIH 241 10 0.0003 4619 PAP LSLLSLYGIHK 241 11 4620 PAP LSLYGIHK 244 8 4621 PAP LSLYGIHKQK 244 10 0.0520 4622 Kallikrein LSNDMCAR 179 8 4623 Kallikrein LSNDMCARA 179 9 4624 Kallikrein LSNDMCARAY 179 10 4625 Kallikrein LSVGCTGA 10 8 4626 PSA LSVTWIGA 6 8 4627 PSA LSVTWIGAA 6 9 4628 PSM LSYPNKTH 117 8 4629 PSM LSYPNKTHPNY 117 11 4630 PSA LTAAHCIR 57 8 4631 PSA LTAAHCIRNK 57 10 0.1400 4632 Kallikrein LTAAHCLK 61 8 4633 Kallikrein LTAAHCLKK 61 9 4634 PAP LTELYFEK 315 8 0.0014 4635 PAP LTELYFEKGEY 315 11 4636 PSA LTLSVTWIGA 4 10 4637 PSA LTLSVTWIGAA 4 11 4638 PSM LTPGYPANEY 268 10 0.0005 4639 PSM LTPGYPANEYA 268 11 4640 PAP LTQLGMEQH 70 9 4641 PAP LTQLGMEQHY 70 10 0.0150 4642 PSA LVASRGRA 37 8 4643 PSM LVEKFYDPMF 561 10 4644 PSM LVEKFYDPMFK 561 11 4645 PAP LVFRHGDR 40 8 0.0003 4646 PSM LVHNLTKELK 473 10 4647 Kallikrein LVHPQWVLTA 54 10 4648 PSA LVHPQWVLTA 50 10 4649 Kallikrein LVHPQWVLTAA 54 11 4650 PSA LVHPQWVLTAA 50 11 4651 PSM LVLAGGFF 26 8 4652 PAP LVNEILNH 263 8 4653 PAP LVNEILNHMK 263 10 0.0560 4654 PAP LVNEILNHMKR 263 11 4655 PSM LVYVNYAR 174 8 4656 Kallikrein MCARAYSEK 183 9 4657 PSA MDLPTQEPA 135 9 4658 PSM MFKYHLTVA 569 9 4659 Kallikrein MLCAGLWTGGK 196 11 4660 PSA MLCAGRWTGGK 192 11 4661 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPA 122 9 4662 PSA MLLRLSEPA 118 9 4663 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPAK 122 10 4664 PSM MMNDQLMF 663 8 4665 PSM MMNDQLMFLER 663 11 4666 PAP MSAMTNLA 114 8 4667 PAP MSAMTNLAA 114 9 4668 PAP MSAMTNLAALF 114 11 4669 Kallikrein MSLLKHQSLR 103 10 4670 PSA MSLLKNRF 99 8 4671 PSA MSLLKNRFLR 99 10 0.0070 4672 PAP MTNLAALF 117 8 4673 PSM NADSSIEGNY 451 10 4674 PSM NAQLAGAK 216 8 4675 PSM NCSGKIVIA 195 9 4676 PSM NCSGKIVIAR 195 10 4677 PSM NCSGKIVIARY 195 11 4678 PSM NDFEVFFQR 519 9 4679 Kallikrein NDMCARAY 181 8 4680 Kallikrein NDMCARAYSEK 181 11 4681 PSM NDQLMFLER 665 9 4682 PSM NDQLMFLERA 665 10 4683 PSM NDQLMFLERAF 665 11 4684 PSA NDVCAQVH 177 8 4685 PSA NDVCAQVHPQK 177 11 4686 PSM NFSTQKVK 336 8 4687 PSM NFSTQKVKMH 336 10 4688 PSM NFTEIASK 638 8 4689 PSM NFTEIASKF 638 9 0.0005 4690 PAP NFTLPSWA 220 8 4691 PSM NFTQIPHLA 76 9 4692 PSM NGAGDPLTPGY 262 11 4693 PAP NGLLPPYA 304 8 4694 PAP NGLLPYASCH 304 11 4695 PSM NIKKFLYNF 69 9 4696 PSM NILNLNGA 257 8 4697 PSM NITPKHNMK 51 9 4698 PSM NITPKHNMKA 51 10 4699 PSM NITPKHNMKAF 51 11 4700 Kallikrein NLFEPEDTGQR 79 11 4701 PSM NLLHETDSA 3 9 0.0006 4702 PSM NLLHETDSAVA 3 11 4703 PSM NLPGGGVQR 247 9 4704 PSM NMKAFLDELK 57 10 4705 PSM NMKAFLDELKA 57 11 4706 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSLR 102 11 4707 PSM NSIVLPFDCR 589 10 4708 Kallikrein NSQVWLGR 70 8 4709 Kallikrein NSQVWLGRH 70 9 4710 PSM NSRLLQER 438 8 4711 PSM NSRLLQERGVA 438 11 4712 PSM NVGPGFTGNF 328 10 4713 PSM NVIGTLRGA 357 9 4714 PSM NVSDIVPPF 153 9 4715 PSM NVSDIVPPFSA 153 11 4716 PSM PADYFAPGVK 231 10 4717 PSA PAELTDAVK 125 9 0.0002 4718 Kallikrein PAKITDVVK 129 9 4719 Kallikrein PALGTTCY 146 8 4720 PSA PALGTTCY 142 8 4721 Kallikrein PALGTTCYA 146 9 4722 PSA PALGTTCYA 142 9 4723 PSM PANEYAYR 273 8 4724 PSM PANEYAYRR 273 9 0.0001 4725 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVH 240 9 4726 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVHY 240 10 4727 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVHYR 240 11 4728 Kallikrein PCALPEKPA 233 9 4729 Kallikrein PCALPEKPAVY 233 11 4730 PSA PCALPERPSLY 229 11 4731 PSM PDEGFEGK 484 8 4732 PSM PDEGFEGKSLY 484 11 4733 PSM PDRPFYRH 682 8 4734 PSM PDRPFYRHVIY 682 11 4735 PSM PDRYVILGGH 368 10 4736 PSM PDRYVILGGHR 368 11 4737 PSM PDSSWRGSLK 315 10 4738 PSM PFDCRDYA 594 8 4739 PAP PFRNCPRF 157 8 4740 PSM PFYRHVIY 685 8 4741 PSM PFYRHVIYA 685 9 4742 PAP PGCSPSCPLER 345 11 4743 PSM PGFTGNFSTQK 331 11 4744 PSM PGIYDALF 706 8 4745 PSM PGYPANEY 270 8 4746 PSM PGYPANEYA 270 9 4747 PSM PGYPANEYAY 270 10 4748 PSM PGYPANEYAYR 270 11 4749 PAP PIDTFPTDPIK 49 11 4750 PSM PIGYYDAQK 296 9 4751 PAP PIKESSWPQGF 57 11 4752 PAP PILLWQPIPVH 134 11 4753 PSM PLGLPDRPF 678 9 4754 PSM PLGLPDRPFY 678 10 4755 PSM PLGLPDRPFYR 678 11 4756 PAP PLLLARAA 5 8 4757 PSM PLMYSLVH 468 8 4758 PAP PLSEDQLLY 147 9 0.0005 4759 PSM PLTPGYPA 267 8 4760 PSM PLTPGYPANEY 267 11 4761 PAP PLYCESVH 212 8 4762 PAP PLYCESVHNF 212 10 4763 PSA PLYDMSLLK 95 9 0.2400 4764 PSA PLYDMSLLKNR 95 11 4765 PSM PLYHSVYETY 550 10 0.0004 4766 Kallikrein PLYNMSLLK 99 9 4767 Kallikrein PLYNMSLLKH 99 10 4768 PSM PMFKYHLTVA 568 10 0.0005 4769 PAP PSCPLERF 349 8 4770 PAP PSCPLERFA 349 9 4771 PSM PSIPVHPIGY 290 10 4772 PSM PSIPVHPIGYY 290 11 4773 PSM PSKAWGEVK 721 9 4774 PSM PSKAWGEVKR 721 10 0.0003 4775 PSA PSLYTKVVH 236 9 4776 PSA PSLYTKVVHY 236 10 0.0079 4777 PSA PSLYTKVVHYR 236 11 4778 PSM PSPEFSGMPR 502 10 4779 PSM PSSHNKYA 694 8 4780 PAP PSWATEDTMTK 224 11 4781 PAP PSYKKLIMY 278 9 0.0002 4782 PAP PSYKKLIMYSA 278 11 4783 PSM PVHPIGYY 293 8 4784 PSM PVHPIGYYDA 293 10 4785 Kallikrein PVSHSFPH 91 8 4786 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPLY 91 11 4787 PSM QAAAETLSEVA 740 11 4788 PAP QDLFGIWSK 200 9 0.0006 4789 PAP QDLFGIWSKVY 200 11 4790 PSM QGMPEGDLVY 167 10 4791 PAP QIPSYKKLIMY 276 11 4792 PSM QIQSQWKEF 95 9 4793 PSM QIYVAAFTVQA 731 11 4794 PSM QLAGAKGVILY 218 11 4795 PSM QLAKQIQSQWK 91 11 4796 PAP QLGMEQHY 72 8 4797 PAP QLLYLPFR 152 8 4798 PSM QLMFLERA 667 8 4799 PSM QLMFLERAF 667 9 4800 PAP QLTQLGMEQH 69 10 4801 PAP QLTQLGMEQHY 69 11 4802 PSM QSGAAVVH 389 8 4803 Kallikrein QSLRPDEDSSH 109 11 4804 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGWA 39 10 4805 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGWAH 39 11 4806 PSA QVFQVSHSF 84 9 4807 PSA QVFQVSHSFPH 84 11 4808 PSA QVHPQKVTK 182 9 0.0060 4809 PSA QVHPQKVTKF 182 10 4810 PSA QVLVASRGR 35 9 0.0021 4811 PSA QVLVASRGRA 35 10 4812 PSM QVRGGMVF 578 8 4813 PSM QVRGGMVFELA 578 11 4814 PSA QVSHSFPH 87 8 4815 PSA QVSHSFPHPLY 87 11 4816 Kallikrein QVWLGRHNLF 72 10 4817 PAP QVYIRSTDVDR 101 11 4818 PAP RAAPLLLA 2 8 4819 PAP RAAPLLLAR 2 9 0.1500 4820 PAP RAAPLLLARA 2 10 4821 PAP RAAPLLLARAA 2 11 4822 PAP RAASLSLGF 10 9 4823 PAP RAASLSLGFLF 10 11 4824 PAP RATQIPSY 273 8 4825 PAP RATQIPSYK 273 9 0.0210 4826 PAP RATQIPSYKK 273 10 0.0053 4827 PSA RAVCGGVLVH 43 10 0.0110 4828 Kallikrein RAYSEKVTEF 186 10 4829 PSM RDMKINCSGK 190 10 0.0021 4830 PSM RDYAVVLR 598 8 4831 PSM RDYAVVLRK 598 9 0.0024 4832 PSM RDYAVVLRKY 598 10 4833 PSM RDYAVVLRKYA 598 11 4834 PSA RFLRPGDDSSH 105 11 4835 PAP RFQELESETLK 163 11 4836 PSM RGAVEPDR 363 8 4837 PSM RGAVEPDRY 363 9 4838 PSM RGGMVFELA 580 9 4839 PSM RGNILNLNGA 255 10 4840 PSM RGNKVKNA 210 8 4841 PSM RGNKVKNAQLA 210 11 4842 PSM RGSLKVPY 320 8 4843 PSM RGVAYINA 445 8 4844 PSM RISKLGSGNDF 511 11 4845 Kallikrein RIVGGWECEK 24 10 0.0460 4846 PSA RIVGGWECEK 20 10 0.0460 4847 Kallikrein RIVGGWEGEKH 24 11 4848 PSA RIVGGWECEKH 20 11 4849 PSM RIYNVIGTLR 354 10 0.3700 4850 PSM RLGIASGR 527 8 4851 PSM RLGIASGRA 527 9 0.0032 4852 PSM RLGIASGRAR 527 10 4853 PSM RLGIASGRARY 527 11 4854 PAP RLHPYKDF 180 8 4855 PAP RLHPYKDFIA 180 10 0.0005 4856 PSM RLLQERGVA 440 9 0.0012 4857 PSM RLLQERGVAY 440 10 0.0220 4858 PSA RLSEPAELTDA 121 11 4859 PSM RMMNDQLMF 662 9 4860 PSM RSFGTLKK 400 8 4861 Kallikrein RSLQCVSLH 169 9 4862 PAP RSVLAKELK 28 9 0.0490 4863 PAP RSVLAKELKP 28 10 4864 PSM RTEDFFKLER 181 10 4865 PSM RTILFASWDA 414 10 4866 PAP RTLMSAMTNLA 111 11 4867 PSM RVDCTPLMY 463 9 4868 Kallikrein RVPVSHSF 89 8 4869 Kallikrein RVPVSHSFPH 89 10 4870 PAP SAMTNLAA 115 8 4871 PAP SAMTNLAALF 115 10 4872 PSM SAPPDSSWR 312 9 0.0006 4873 PSM SAVATARR 10 8 4874 PSM SAVATARRPR 10 10 4875 PSM SAVKNFTEIA 634 10 4876 PAP SCHLTELY 312 8 4877 PAP SCHLTELYF 312 9 4878 PAP SCHLTELYFEK 312 11 4879 PAP SCPLERFA 350 8 4880 PSM SDIVPPFSA 155 9 4881 PSM SDIVPPFSAF 155 10 4882 PSM SDPADYFA 229 8 4883 PSM SFDSLFSA 628 8 4884 PSM SFDSLFSAVK 628 10 4885 PSM SFGTLKKEGWR 401 11 4886 PSM SFPGIYDA 704 8 4887 PSM SFPGIYDALF 704 10 4888 PSM SGAAVVHEIVR 390 11 4889 PSM SGKIVIAR 197 8 4890 PSM SGKIVIARY 197 9 4891 PSM SGKIVIARYGK 197 11 4892 PAP SGLHGQDLF 195 9 4893 PAP SGLQMALDVY 294 10 4894 PSM SGMPRISK 507 8 4895 PSM SGNDFEVF 517 8 4896 PSM SGNDFEVFF 517 9 4897 PSM SGNDFEVFFQR 517 11 4898 PSM SGRARYTK 532 8 4899 Kallikrein SGWGSIEPEEF 155 11 4900 PSA SGWGSIEPEEF 151 11 4901 PSM SGYPLYHSVY 547 10 4902 Kallikrein SIALSVGCTGA 7 11 4903 PSM SIEGNYTLR 455 9 4904 Kallikrein SIEPEEFLR 159 9 4905 Kallikrein SIEPEEFLRPR 159 11 4906 PSA SIEPEEFLTPK 155 11 4907 PSM SIINEDGNEIF 129 11 4908 PSM SIPVHPIGY 291 9 4909 PSM SIPVHPIGYY 291 10 0.0940 4910 PSM SISMKHPQEMK 613 11 4911 PSM SIVLPFDCR 590 9 0.0006 4912 PSM SIVLPFDCRDY 590 11 4913 PSM SLFEPPPPGY 142 10 4914 PSM SLFSAVKNF 631 9 4915 PAP SLGFLFLLF 15 9 4916 PAP SLGFLFLLFF 15 10 4917 Kallikrein SLHLLSNDMCA 175 11 4918 Kallikrein SLLKHQSLR 104 9 4919 PSA SLLKNRFLR 100 9 0.0024 4920 PAP SLLSLYGIH 242 9 0.0006 4921 PAP SLLSLYGIHK 242 10 0.4900 4922 Kallikrein SLQCVSL 170 8 4923 Kallikrein SLRPDEDSSH 110 10 4924 PAP SLSLGFLF 13 8 4925 PAP SLSLGFLFLLF 13 11 4926 PSM SLVHNLTK 472 8 4927 PSM SLVHNLTKELK 472 11 4928 PSM SLYESKVTK 492 8 4929 PSM SLYESWTKK 492 9 1.0000 4930 PAP SLYGIHKQK 245 9 1.1000 4931 PAP SLYGIHKQKEK 245 11 4932 PSA SLYTKVVH 237 8 4933 PSA SLYTKVVHY 237 9 0.6800 4934 PSA SLYTKVVHYR 237 10 0.2800 4935 PSA SLYTKVVHYRK 237 11 4936 PSM SMKHPQEMK 615 9 0.1100 4937 PSM SMKHPQEMKTY 615 11 4938 Kallikrein SSHDLMLLR 117 9 0.0039 4939 PSA SSHDLMLLR 113 9 0.0039 4940 PSM SSHNKYAGESF 695 11 4941 PSM SSIEGNYTLR 454 10 0.0007 4942 PSM SSNEATNITPK 45 11 4943 PSM SSWRGSLK 317 8 4944 PSM SSWRGSLKVPY 317 11 4945 PAP STDVDRTLMSA 106 11 4946 PAP STECMTTNSH 369 10 4947 PSM STEWAEENSR 431 10 0.0005 4948 PSM STNEVTRIY 348 9 0.0016 4949 PSM STQKVKMH 338 8 4950 PSM STQKVKMHIH 338 10 4951 PAP SVHNFTLPSWA 217 11 4952 PSA SVILLGRH 67 8 4953 PSA SVILLGRHSLF 67 11 4954 PAP SVLAKELK 29 8 0.0017 4955 PAP SVLAKELKF 29 9 4956 PSM SVSFDSLF 626 8 4957 PSM SVSFDSLFSA 626 10 4958 PSA SVTWIGAA 7 8 4959 PSM SVYETYELVEK 554 11 4960 PSA TAAHCIRNK 58 9 0.0094 4961 Kallikrein TAAHCLKK 62 8 4962 PSM TARRPRWLCA 14 10 4963 PSM TDSAVATA 8 8 4964 PSM TDSAVATAR 8 9 4965 PSM TDSAVATARR 8 10 4966 PAP TDVDRTLMSA 107 10 4967 PAP TFPTDPIK 52 8 4968 Kallikrein TGAVPLIQSR 15 10 4969 PSM TGNFSTQK 334 8 4970 PSM TGNFSTQKVK 334 10 0.0007 4971 Kallikrein TGQRVPVSH 86 9 4972 Kallikrein TGQRVPVSHSF 86 11 4973 PSA TGQVFQVSH 82 9 0.0002 4974 PSA TGQVFQVSHSF 82 11 4975 PSM TILFASWDA 415 9 4976 PAP TLGKLSGLH 190 9 4977 PSM TLKKEGWR 404 8 4978 PSM TLKKEGWRPR 404 10 0.0007 4979 PSM TLKKEGWRPRR 404 11 4980 PAP TLKSEEFQK 171 9 0.0006 4981 PAP TLKSEEFQKR 171 10 0.0007 4982 PAP TLMSAMTNLA 112 10 0.0005 4983 PAP TLMSAMTNLAA 112 11 4984 PSM TLRGAVEPDR 361 10 0.0003 4985 PSM TLRGAVEPDRY 361 11 4986 PSM TLRVDCTPLMY 461 11 4987 PSA TLSVTWIGA 5 9 4988 PSA TLSVTWIGAA 5 10 4989 PAP TLVFRHGDR 39 9 0.0006 4990 PSM TSLFEPPPPGY 141 11 4991 Kallikrein TSWGPEPCA 227 9 4992 PSA TSWGSEPCA 223 9 4993 PAP TTVSGLQMA 291 9 4994 PSM TVAQVRGGMVF 575 11 4995 PAP TVPLSEDQLLY 145 11 4996 PAP TVSGLQMA 292 8 4997 PSM VAAFTVQA 734 8 4998 PSM VAAFTVQAA 734 9 4999 PSM VAAFTVQAAA 734 10 5000 PSM VAQVRGGMVF 576 10 5001 PSM VATARRPR 12 8 5002 Kallikrein VAVYSHGWA 40 9 5003 Kallikrein VAVYSHGWAH 40 10 5004 PSA VCAQVHPQK 179 9 5005 PSA VCGGVLVH 45 8 5006 PSM VDCTPLMY 464 8 5007 PSM VDPSKAWGEVK 719 11 5008 PAP VDRTLMSA 109 8 5009 PSM VFFQRLGIA 523 9 5010 PSM VFGGIDPQSGA 382 11 5011 PSA VFQVSHSF 85 8 5012 PSA VFQVSHSFPH 85 10 5013 PSM VFRGNKVK 208 8 5014 PSM VFRGNKVKNA 208 10 5015 Kallikrein VGGWECEK 26 8 5016 PSA VGGWECEK 22 8 5017 Kallikrein VGGWECEKH 26 9 5018 PSA VGGWECEKH 22 9 5019 PSM VGLPSIPVH 287 9 5020 PSM VGPGFTGNF 329 9 5021 PSM VIARYGKVF 201 9 5022 PSM VIARYGKVFR 201 10 5023 PSM VIGTLRGA 358 8 5024 PSA VILLGRHSLF 68 10 5025 PSA VILLGRHSLFH 68 11 5026 PSM VILYSDPA 225 8 5027 PSM VILYSDPADY 225 10 5028 PSM VILYSDPADYF 225 11 5029 PSA VISNDVCA 174 8 5030 PSA VISNDVCAQVH 174 11 5031 PSM VIYAPSSH 690 8 5032 PSM VIYAPSSHNK 690 10 0.5400 5033 PSM VIYAPSSHNKY 690 11 5034 PSM VLAGGFFLLGF 27 11 5035 PAP VLAKELKF 30 8 5036 Kallikrein VLGLPTQEPA 138 10 5037 PSM VLLSYPNK 115 8 5038 PSM VLLSYPNKTH 115 10 5039 PSM VLPFDCRDY 592 9 5040 PSM VLPFDCRDYA 592 10 0.0005 5041 PSM VLRKYADK 603 8 5042 PSM VLRKYADKIY 603 10 5043 PSM VLRMMNDQLMF 660 11 5044 PSA VLTAAHCIR 56 9 0.0002 5045 PSA VLTAAHCIRNK 56 11 5046 Kallikrein VLTAAHCLK 60 9 5047 Kallikrein VLTAAHCLKK 60 10 5048 PSA VLVASRGR 36 8 5049 PSA VLVASRGRA 36 9 5050 Kallikrein VLVHPQWVLTA 53 11 5051 PSA VLVHPQWVLTA 49 11 5052 PAP VLVNEILNH 262 9 0.0019 5053 PAP VLVNEILNHMK 262 11 5054 PSA VMDLPTQEPA 134 10 5055 PSM VSDIVPPF 154 8 5056 PSM VSDIVPPFSA 154 10 5057 PSM VSDIVPPFSAF 154 11 5058 PSM VSFDSLFSA 627 9 5059 PSM VSFDSLFSAVK 627 11 5060 PAP VSGLQMALDVY 293 11 5061 Kallikrein VSHSFPHPLY 92 10 0.0003 5062 PSA VSHSFPEIPLY 88 10 0.0003 5063 Kallikrein VTEFMLCA 192 8 5064 PSA VTKFMLCA 188 8 5065 PSA VTKFMLCAGR 188 10 0.0003 5066 PAP VTLVFRHGDR 38 10 5067 PSM VVHEIVRSF 394 9 5068 Kallikrein VVHYRKWIK 246 9 0.0072 5069 PSA VVHYRKWIK 242 9 0.0072 5070 PSM VVLRKYADK 602 9 0.0390 5071 PSM VVLRKYADKIY 602 11 5072 Kallikrein WAHCGGVLVH 47 10 5073 PAP WATEDTMTK 226 9 0.0006 5074 PAP WATEDTMTKLR 226 11 5075 Kallikrein WDLVLSIA 2 8 5076 PSM WFIKSSNEA 41 9 5077 PSM WGEVKRQIY 725 9 5078 PSM WGEVKRQIYVA 725 11 5079 Kallikrein WGPEPCALPEK 229 11 5080 PSA WGSEPCALPER 225 11 5081 Kallikrein WGSIEPEEF 157 9 5082 PSA WGSIEPEEF 153 9 5083 Kallikrein WGSIEPEEFLR 157 11 5084 PSA WIGAAPLILSR 10 11 5085 Kallikrein WIKDTIAA 252 8 5086 PSA WIKDTIVA 248 8 5087 PSM WLCAGALVLA 20 10 0.0026 5088 PAP WLDRSVLA 25 8 5089 PAP WLDRSVLAK 25 9 0.0035 5090 Kallikrein WLGRHNLF 74 8 5091 PAP WSKVYDPLY 206 9 0.0002 5092 PAP WSTECMTTNSH 368 11 5093 PSM WTKKSPSPEF 497 10 5094 PSA WVLTAAHCIR 55 10 0.0004 5095 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCLK 59 10 509.6 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCLKK 59 11 5097 PSM YADKIYSISMK 607 11 5098 PSM YAGESFPGIY 700 10 5099 PSM YAPSSHNK 692 8 5100 PSM YAPSSHNKY 692 9 5101 PSM YAPSSHNKYA 692 10 5102 PSM YARTEDFF 179 8 5103 PSM YARTEDFFK 179 9 5104 PAP YASCHLTELY 310 10 0.0003 5105 PAP YASCHLTELYF 310 11 5106 PSM YAVVLRKY 600 8 5107 PSM YAVVLRKYA 600 9 5108 PSM YAVVLRKYADK 600 11 5109 PSM YAYRRGIA 277 8 5110 PSM YAYRRGIAEA 277 10 5111 PAP YCESVHNF 214 8 5112 PSM YDALFDIESK 709 10 5113 PSM YDAQKLLEK 300 9 0.0006 5114 PSA YDMSLLKNR 97 9 5115 PSA YDMSLLKNRF 97 10 5116 PAP YDPLYCESVH 210 10 5117 PSM YDPMFKYH 566 8 5118 PSM YDVLLSYPNK 113 10 0.0005 5119 PSM YFAPGVKSY 234 9 5120 PAP YFEKGEYF 319 8 5121 PAP YFVEMYYR 325 8 5122 PAP YGIHKQKEK 247 9 0.0006 5123 PAP YGIHKQKEKSR 247 11 5124 PSM YGKVFRGNK 205 9 0.0006 5125 PSM YGKVFRGNKVK 205 1.1 5126 PAP YIRKRYRK 84 8 5127 PAP YTRKRYRKF 84 9 5128 PAP YIRSTDVDR 103 9 5129 PAP YLPFRNCPR 155 9 5130 PAP YLPFRNCPRF 155 10 5131 PSM YSDPADYF 228 8 5132 PSM YSDPADYFA 228 9 5133 Kallikrein YSEKVTEF 188 8 5134 PSM YSLVHNLTK 471 9 0.0600 5135 PSM YSVSFDSLF 625 9 5136 PSM YSVSFDSLFSA 625 11 5137 PSM YTKNWETNK 537 9 5138 PSM YTKNWETNKF 537 10 5139 Kallikrein YTKVVHYR 243 8 5140 PSA YTKVVHYR 239 8 5141 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRK 243 9 0.0006 5142 PSA YTKVVHYRK 239 9 0.0006 5143 PSM YVAAFTVQA 733 9 5144 PSM YVAAFTVQAA 733 10 5145 PSM YVAAFTVQAAA 733 11 5146 PSM YVILGGHR 371 8 5147 PSM YVNYARTEDF 176 10 5148 PSM YVNYARTEDFF 176 11 5149

TABLE XVII Prostate All Motif PeDtides with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids A*1101 no. PSA AAHCIRNK 59 8 5150 PSA AAPLILSR 13 8 5151 PAP AAPLLLAR 3 8 5152 PSM AAVVHEIVR 392 9 5153 PSM ADKIYSISMK 608 10 5154 PSM ADKIYSISMKH 608 11 5155 PSM ADSSIEGNY 452 9 5156 PSM ADYFAPGVK 232 9 0.0051 5157 PSM ADYFAPGVKSY 232 11 5158 PSM AFIDPLGLPDR 674 11 5159 PSM AGAKGVILY 220 9 5160 PSM AGDPLTPGY 264 9 5161 PSM AGESFPGIY 701 9 5162 Kallikrein AGLWTGGK 199 8 5163 PSA AGRWTGGK 195 8 5164 PSM AGTEQNFQLAK 84 11 5165 PSM ALFDIESK 711 8 5166 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVY 235 9 5167 Kallikrein ALPEKPAVYTK 235 11 5168 PSA ALPERPSLY 231 9 0.0013 5169 PSA ALPERPSLYTK 231 II 5170 PSM ANEYAYRR 274 8 5171 PSM ANSIVLPFDCR 588 11 5172 PAP ASCHLTELY 311 9 0.0550 5173 PSM ASGRARYTK 531 9 0.2700 5174 PAP ATEDTMTK 227 8 0.0039 5175 PAP ATEDTMTKLR 227 10 5176 PAP ATLGKLSGLH 189 10 5177 PSM ATNITPKH 49 8 5178 PSM ATNITPKHNMK 49 11 5179 PAP ATQIPSYK 274 8 0.0700 5180 PAP ATQIPSYKK 274 9 1.2000 5181 PSM AVATARRPR 11 9 5182 PSA AVCGGVLVH 44 9 5183 PSM AVGLPSIPVH 286 10 5184 PSM AVKNFTEIASK 635 11 5185 Kallikrein AVPLIQSR 17 8 5186 PSM AVVHEIVR 393 8 5187 PSM AVVLRKYADK 601 10 0.0210 5188 Kallikrein AVYSHGWAH 41 9 5189 Kallikrein AVYTKVVH 241 8 5190 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHY 241 9 5191 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHYR 241 10 5192 Kallikrein AVYTKVVHYRK 241 11 5193 Kallikrein CAGLWTGGK 198 9 5194 PSA CAGRWTGGK 194 9 0.0015 5195 Kallikrein CALPEKPAVY 234 10 5196 PSA CALPERPSLY 230 10 5197 PSA CAQVHPQK 180 8 5198 PSA CAQVHPQKVTK 180 11 5199 Kallikrein CARAYSEK 184 8 5200 PSM CSGKIVIAR 196 9 5201 PSM CSGKIVIARY 196 10 0.0490 5202 PAP CSPSCPLER 347 9 0.0006 5203 Kallikrein CTGAVPLIQSR 14 11 5204 PSM CTPLMYSLVH 466 10 5205 PSM DALFDIESK 710 9 0.0002 5206 PSM DAQKLLEK 301 8 5207 PSM DCRDYAVVLR 596 10 5208 PSM DCRDYAVVLRK 596 11 5209 PSM DCTPLMYSLVH 465 11 5210 PSA DDSSHDLMLLR 111 11 5211 PSM DFDKSNPIVLR 652 11 5212 PSM DFEVFFQR 520 8 5213 PSM DFFKLERDMK 184 10 5214 PAP DFIATLGK 186 8 5215 PSM DIESKVDPSK 714 10 0.0002 5216 PAP DLFGIWSK 201 8 5217 PAP DLFGIWSKVY 201 10 5218 PSM DLVYVNYAR 173 9 5219 Kallikrein DMCARAYSEK 182 10 5220 PSM DMKINCSGK 191 9 5221 PSA DMSLLKNR 98 8 0.0001 5222 PSA DMSLLKNRFLR 98 11 5223 PSM DSAVATAR 9 8 5224 PSM DSAVATARR 9 9 5225 PSM DSAVATARRPR 9 11 5226 PSM DSLFSAVK 630 8 5227 Kallikrein DSSHDLMLLR 116 10 5228 PSA DSSHDLMLLR 112 10 5229 PSM DSSIEGNY 453 8 5230 PSM DSSIEGNYTLR 453 11 5231 PSM DSSWRGSLK 316 9 0.0003 5232 PSM DSVELAHY 106 8 5233 PAP DTFPTDPIK 51 9 0.0001 5234 Kallikrein DTGQRVPVSH 85 10 5235 PSA DTGQVFQVSH 81 10 5236 PSA DVCAQVHPQK 178 10 0.0011 5237 PSM DVLLSYPNK 114 9 0.0010 5238 PSM DVLLSYPNKTH 114 11 5239 PAP DVYNGLLPPY 301 10 5240 PSM EATNITPK 48 8 5241 PSM EATNITPKH 48 9 5242 PSM EAVGLPSIPVH 285 11 5243 PAP ECMTTNSH 371 8 5244 PSM EDFFKLER 183 8 5245 PSM EDFFKLERDMK 183 11 5246 PAP EDQLLYLPFR 150 10 5247 Kallikrein EDSSHDLMLLR 115 11 5248 Kallikrein EDTGQRVPVSH 84 11 5249 PSA EDTGQVFQVSH 80 11 5250 PAP EDTMTKLR 229 8 5251 PSM EFGLDSVELAH 102 11 5252 PAP EFQKRLHPY 176 9 5253 PAP EFQKRLHPYK 176 10 5254 PSM EFSGMPRISK 505 10 5255 PSM EGDLVYVNY 171 9 5256 PSM EGDLVYVNYAR 171 11 5257 PSM EGFEGKSLY 486 9 5258 PSM EGKSLYESWTK 489 11 5259 PSM EIASKFSER 641 9 0.0002 5260 PAP EILNHMKR 266 8 5261 PSM EIVRSFGTLK 397 10 5262 PSM EIVRSFGTLKK 397 11 5263 PSM ELAHYDVLLSY 109 11 5264 PAP ELESETLK 166 8 5265 PAP ELGEYIRK 80 8 5266 PAP ELGEYIRKR 80 9 5267 PAP ELGEYIRKRY 80 10 5268 PAP ELGEYIRKRYR 80 11 5269 PSM ELKAENIK 64 8 5270 PSM ELKAENIKK 64 9 5271 PAP ELKFVTLVFR 34 10 0.0037 5272 PAP ELKFYTLVFRH 34 11 5273 PAP ELSELSLLSLY 237 11 5274 PAP ELSLLSLY 240 8 5275 PAP ELSLLSLYGIH 240 11 5276 PAP ELYFEKGEY 317 9 5277 PAP EMYYRNETQH 328 10 5278 PSM ENIKKYLY 68 8 5279 PSM ENSRLLQER 437 9 5280 PSM ESKVDPSK 716 8 5281 PAP ESYKHEQVY 95 9 0.0002 5282 PAP ESYKHEQVYIR 95 11 5283 PSM ETDSAVATAR 7 10 5284 PSM ETDSAVATARR 7 11 5285 PAP ETLKSEEFQK 170 10 0.0140 5286 PAP ETLKSEEFQKR 170 11 5287 PSM ETNKFSGY 542 8 5288 PSM ETNKFSGYPLY 542 11 5289 PSM ETYELVEK 557 8 5290 PSM ETYELVEKFY 557 10 0.0002 5291 PSM FAPGVKSY 235 8 5292 PSM FDCRDYAVVLR 595 11 5293 PSM FDIESKVDPSK 713 11 5294 PSM FDKSNPIVLR 653 10 5295 PSM FDSLFSAVK 629 9 5296 PSM FFKLERDMK 185 9 5297 PSM FFQRLGIASGR 524 11 5298 PAP FFWLDRSVLAK 23 11 5299 PAP FGIWSKVY 203 8 5300 PSM FGLDSVELAH 103 10 5301 PSM FGLDSVELAHY 103 11 5302 PSM FGTLKKEGWR 402 10 5303 PSM FIDPLGLPDR 675 10 5304 PSM FLDELKAENIK 61 11 5305 PSM FLFGWFIK 37 8 5306 PAP FLFLLFFWLDR 18 11 5307 PAP FLLFFWLDR 20 9 0.0004 5308 PAP FLNESYKH 92 8 5309 PSA FLRPGDDSSH 106 10 5310 PSM FLYNFTQIPH 73 10 0.0036 5311 PSM FSERLQDFDK 646 10 0.0007 5312 PSM FSGMPRISK 506 9 5313 PSM FSGYPLYH 546 8 5314 PSM FSGYPLYHSVY 546 11 5315 PSM FSTQKVKMH 337 9 5316 PSM FSTQKVKMHIH 337 11 5317 PSM FTEIASKFSER 639 11 5318 PSM FTGNFSTQK 333 9 5319 PSM FTGNFSTQKVK 333 11 5320 PAP FVTLVFRH 37 8 5321 PAP FVTLVFRHGDR 37 11 5322 PSA GAAPLILSR 12 9 0.0350 5323 PSM GAAVVHEIVR 391 10 5324 PSM GAGDPLTPGY 263 10 5325 PSM GAKGVILY 221 8 5326 PSM GAVEPDRY 364 8 5327 Kallikrein GAVPLIQSR 16 9 5328 PAP GCSPSCPLER 346 10 5329 PSM GDLVYVNY 172 8 5330 PSM GDLVYVNYAR 172 10 5331 PSM GDPLTPGY 265 8 5332 PSM GFEGKSLY 487 8 5333 PSM GFLFGWFIK 36 9 0.0014 5334 PSM GFTGNFSTQK 332 10 5335 PSM GGSAPPDSSWR 310 11 5336 PAP GGVLVNEILNH 260 11 5337 Kallikrein GGWECEKH 27 8 5338 PSA GGWECEKH 23 8 5339 PSM GIASGRAR 529 8 5340 PSM GIASGRARY 529 9 5341 PSM GIASGRARYTK 529 11 5342 PAP GIHKQKEK 248 8 5343 PAP GIHKQKEKSR 248 10 5344 PAP GIWSKVYDPLY 204 11 5345 PSM GLDSVELAH 104 9 5346 PSM GLDSVELAHY 104 10 5347 PAP GLLPPYASGH 305 10 5348 PSM GLPDRPFY 680 8 5349 PSM GLPDRPFYR 680 9 0.0280 5350 PSM GLPDRPFYRH 680 10 5351 PSM GLPSIPVH 288 8 5352 PAP GLQMALDVY 295 9 5353 PAP GMEQHYELGEY 74 11 5354 PSM GMPEGDLVY 168 9 0.0002 5355 PSM GNDFEVFFQR 518 10 5356 PSM GNFSTQKVK 335 9 5357 PSM GNFSTQKVKMH 335 11 5358 PSM GSAPPDSSWR 311 10 0.1400 5359 PSA GSEPALPER 226 10 5360 Kallikrein GSIEPEEFLR 158 10 5361 PSM GSTEWAEENSR 430 11 5362 PSM GTEQNFQLAK 85 10 5363 PSM GTLKKEGWR 403 9 5364 PSM GTLKKEGWRPR 403 11 5365 PSM GTLRGAVEPDR 360 11 5366 PSM GVILYSDPADY 224 11 5367 PAP GVLVNEILNH 261 10 5368 Kallikrein HCGGVLVH 49 8 5369 PAP HGQDLFGIWSK 198 11 5370 PSM HIHSTNEVTR 345 10 5371 Kallikrein HLLSNDMCAR 177 10 53.72 PAP HLTELYFEK 314 9 0.5300 5373 PSM HLTVAQVR 573 8 5374 PAP HMKRATQIPSY 270 11 5375 PSM HNLTKELK 475 8 5376 PSM HNMKAFLDELK 56 11 5377 Kallikrein HSFPHPLY 94 8 0.0006 5378 PSA HSFPHPLY 90 8 0.0006 5379 Kallikrein HSQPWQVAVY 34 10 5380 PSM HSTNEVTR 347 8 5381 PSM HSTNEVTRIY 347 10 0.0002 5382 PSM HVIYAPSSH 689 9 5383 PSM HVIYAPSSHNK 689 11 5384 PSM IARYGKVFR 202 9 5385 PSM IASGRARY 530 8 5386 PSM IASGRARYTK 530 10 5387 PSM IASKFSER 642 8 5388 PAP IATLGKLSGLH 188 11 5389 PSM IDPLGLPDR 676 9 5390 PSM IDPQSGAAVVH 386 11 5391 PAP IDTFPTDPIK 50 10 5392 PSA IGAAPLILSR 11 10 5393 PSM IGYYDAQK 297 8 5394 PSA ILLGRHSLFH 69 10 5395 PAP ILLWQPIPVH 135 10 5396 PSM ILYSDPADY 226 9 5397 PSM INADSSIEGNY 450 11 5398 PSM INCSGKIVIAR 194 11 5399 PSM ISMKHPQEMK 614 10 0.1100 5400 PSA ISNDVCAQVH 175 10 5401 PSM ITPKHNMK 52 8 5402 Kallikrein IVGGWECEK 25 9 0.0190 5403 PSA IVGGWECEK 21 9 0.0190 5404 Kallikrein IVGGWECEKH 25 10 5405 PSA IVGGWECEKH 21 10 5406 PSM IVIARYGK 200 8 5407 PSM IVIARYGKVFR 200 11 5408 PSM IVLPFDCR 591 8 5409 PSM IVLPFDCRDY 591 10 5410 PSM IVRSFGTLK 398 9 0.0087 5411 PSM IVRSFGTLKK 398 10 0.0006 5412 PSM KAENIKKFLY 66 10 5413 PSM KAFLDELK 59 8 5414 PSM KAWGEVKR 723 8 5415 PSM KAWGEVKRQIY 723 11 5416 PAP KDFIATLGK 185 9 0.0004 5417 PAP KFLNESYK 91 8 5418 PAP KFLNESYKH 91 9 5419 PSM KFLYNFTQIPH 72 11 5420 PSA KFMLCAGR 190 8 5421 PSM KFSERLQDFDK 645 11 5422 PSM KFSGYPLY 545 8 5423 PSM KFSGYPLYH 545 9 5424 PAP KFVTLVFR 36 8 5425 PAP KFVTLVFRH 36 9 5426 PSM KFYDPMFK 564 8 5427 PSM KFYDPMFKY 564 9 5428 PSM KFYDPMFKYH 564 10 5429 PAP KGEYFVEMY 322 9 0.0002 5430 PAP KGEYFVEMYY 322 10 0.0890 5431 PAP KGEYFVEMYYR 322 11 5432 PSM KIVIARYGK 199 9 1.0000 5433 PSM KIYSISMK 610 8 5434 PSM KIYSISMKH 610 9 0.1200 5435 PAP KLIMYSAH 282 8 5436 PSA KLQCVDLH 166 8 5437 PSM KNAQLAGAK 215 9 5438 PSM KNFTEIASK 637 9 5439 Kallikrein KNSQVWLGR 69 9 5440 Kallikrein KNSQVWLGRH 69 10 5441 PSM KNWETNKFSGY 539 11 5442 PAP KSEEFQKR 173 8 5443 PAP KSEEFQKRLH 173 10 5444 PSM KSLYESWTK 491 9 2.1000 5445 PSM KSLYESWTKK 491 10 0.0810 5446 PSM KSNPIVLR 655 8 5447 PSM KSPDEGFEGK 482 10 0.0210 5448 PSA KSVILLGR 66 8 5449 PSA KSVILLGRH 66 9 0.0014 5450 PSM KVFRGNKVK 207 9 0.1200 5451 PSM KVKNAQLAGAK 213 11 5452 PSA KVTKFMLCAGR 187 11 5453 Kallikrein KVVHYRKWIK 245 10 0.0450 5454 PSA KVVHYRKWIK 241 10 0.0450 5455 PSM LAGAKGVILY 219 10 0.0002 5456 PSM LAHYDVLLSY 110 10 5457 PSM LAKQIQSQWK 92 10 0.0007 5458 Kallikrein LCAGLWTGGK 197 10 5459 PSA LCAGRWTGGK 193 10 5460 PSM LDELKAENIK 62 10 5461 PSM LDELKAENIKK 62 11 5462 PAP LDRSVLAK 26 8 5463 PAP LDRSVLAKELK 26 11 5464 PSM LDSVELAH 105 8 5465 PSM LDSVELAHY 105 9 5466 PAP LDVYNGLLPPY 300 11 5467 Kallikrein LFEPEDTGQR 80 10 5468 PSM LFEPPPPGY 143 9 5469 PAP LFGIWSKVY 202 9 5470 PAP LFLLFFWLDR 19 10 5471 PAP LGEYIRKR 81 8 5472 PAP LGEYIRKRY 81 9 0.0002 5473 PAP LGEYIRKRYR 81 10 0.0002 5474 PAP LGEYIRKRYRK 81 11 5475 PSM LGFLFGWFIK 35 10 0.3700 5476 PSM LGIASGRAR 528 9 0.0002 5477 PSM LGIASGRARY 528 10 5478 PAP LGKLSGLH 191 8 5479 PSM LGLPDRPFY 679 9 5480 PSM LGLPDRPFYR 679 10 5481 PSM LGLPDRPFYRH 679 11 5482 PSA LGRHSLFH 71 8 5483 PAP LLFFWLDR 21 8 5484 PSM LLGFLFGWFIK 34 11 5485 PSA LLGRHSLFH 70 9 5486 Kallikrein LLKHQSLR 105 8 5487 PSA LLKNRFLR 101 8 5488 PAP LLPPYASCH 306 9 0.0002 5489 PSM LLQERGVAY 441 9 5490 Kallikrein LLRLSEPAK 123 9 5491 PAP LLSLYGIH 243 8 5492 PAP LLSLYGIHK 243 9 0.2000 5493 PAP LLSLYGIHKQK 243 11 5494 Kallikrein LLSNDMCAR 178 9 5495 Kallikrein LLSNDMCARAY 178 11 5496 PSM LLSYPNKTH 116 9 0.0003 5497 PAP LLWQPIPVH 136 9 5498 PAP LLYLPFRNCPR 153 11 5499 Kallikrein LMLLRLSEPAK 121 11 5500 PSM LMYSLVHNLTK 469 11 5501 PAP LNESYKHEQVY 93 11 5502 PAP LSEDQLLY 148 8 5503 PAP LSELSLLSLY 238 10 0.0004 5504 PAP LSLLSLYGIH 241 10 0.0002 5505 PAP LSLLSLYGIHK 241 11 5506 PAP LSLYGIHK 244 8 5507 PAP LSLYGIHKQK 244 10 0.0370 5508 Kallikrein LSNDMCAR 179 8 5509 Kallikrein LSNDMCARAY 179 10 5510 PSM LSYPNKTH 117 8 5511 PSM LSYPNKTHPNY 117 11 5512 PSA LTAAHCIR 57 8 5513 PSA LTAAHCIRNK 57 10 0.0830 5514 Kallikrein LTAAHCLK 61 8 5515 Kallikrein LTAAHCLKK 61 9 5516 PAP LTELYFEK 315 8 0.0100 5517 PAP LTELYFEKGEY 315 11 5518 PSM LTPGYPANEY 268 10 0.0002 5519 PAP LTQLGMEQH 70 9 5520 PAP LTQLGMEQHY 70 10 0.0024 5521 PSM LVEKFYDPMFK 561 11 5522 PAP LVFRHGDR 40 8 0.0002 5523 PSM LVHNLTKELK 473 10 5524 PAP LVNEILNH 263 8 5525 PAP LVNEILNHMK 263 10 0.1200 5526 PAP LVNEILNHMKR 263 11 5527 PSM LVYVNYAR 174 8 5528 Kallikrein MCARAYSEK 183 9 5529 Kallikrein MLCAGLWTGGK 196 11 5530 PSA MLCAGRWTGGK 192 11 5531 Kallikrein MLLRLSEPAK 122 10 5532 PSM MMNDQLMFLER 663 11 5533 PSM MNDQLMFLER 664 10 5534 Kallikrein MSLLKHQSLR 103 10 5535 PSA MSLLKNRFLR 99 10 0.0110 5536 PSM NADSSIEGNY 451 10 5537 PSM NAQLAGAK 216 8 5538 PSM NCSGKIVIAR 195 10 5539 PSM NCSGKIVIARY 195 11 5540 PSM NDFEVFFQR 519 9 5541 Kallikrein NDMCARAY 181 8 5542 Kallikrein NDMCARAYSEK 181 11 5543 PSM NDQLMFLER 665 9 5544 PSA NDVCAQVH 177 8 5545 PSA NDVCAQVHPQK 177 11 5546 PSM NFSTQKVK 336 8 5547 PSM NFSTQKVKMH 336 10 5548 PSM NFTEIASK 638 8 5549 PSM NGAGDPLTPGY 262 11 5550 PAP NGLLPPYASCH 304 11 5551 PSM NITPKHNMK 51 9 5552 Kallikrein NLFEPEDTGQR 79 11 5553 PSM NLPGGGVQR 247 9 5554 PSM NMKAFLDELK 57 10 5555 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSLR 102 11 5556 PSM NSIVLPFDCR 589 10 5557 Kallikrein NSQVWLGR 70 8 5558 Kallikrein NSQVWLGRH 70 9 5559 PSM NSRLLQER 438 8 5560 PSM PADYFAPGVK 231 10 5561 PSA PAELTDAVK 125 9 0.0002 5562 Kallikrein PAKITDVVK 129 9 5563 Kallikrein PALGTTCY 146 8 5564 PSA PALGTTCY 142 8 5565 PSM PANEYAYR 273 8 5566 PSM PANEYAYRR 273 9 0.0002 5567 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVH 240 9 5568 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVHY 240 10 5569 Kallikrein PAVYTKVVHYR 240 11 5570 Kallikrein PCALPEKPAVY 233 11 5571 PSA PCALPERPSLY 229 11 5572 PSM PDEGFEGK 484 8 5573 PSM PDEGFEGKSLY 484 11 5574 PSM PDRPFYRH 682 8 5575 PSM PDRPFYRHVIY 682 11 5576 PSM PDRYVILGGH 368 10 5577 PSM PDRYVILGGHR 368 11 5578 PSM PDSSWRGSLK 315 10 5579 PSM PFYRHVIY 685 8 5580 PAP PGCSPSCPLER 345 11 5581 PSM PGFTGNFSTQK 331 11 5582 PSM PGYPANEY 270 8 5583 PSM PGYPANEYAY 270 10 5584 PSM PGYPANEYAYR 270 11 5585 PAP PIDTFPTDPIK 49 11 5586 PSM PIGYYDAQK 296 9 5587 PAP PILLWQPIPVH 134 11 5588 PSM PLGLPDRPFY 678 10 5589 PSM PLGLPDRPFYR 678 11 5590 PSM PLMYSLVH 468 8 5591 PAP PLSEDQLLY 147 9 0.0001 5592 PSM PLTPGYPANEY 267 11 5593 PAP PLYCESVH 212 8 5594 PSA PLYDMSLLK 95 9 0.0370 5595 PSA PLYDMSLLKNR 95 11 5596 PSM PLYHSVYETY 550 10 0.0002 5597 Kallikrein PLYNMSLLK 99 9 5598 Kallikrein PLYNMSLLKH 99 10 5599 PSM PNKTHPNY 120 8 5600 PSM PSIPVHPIGY 290 10 5601 PSM PSIPVHPIGYY 290 11 5602 PSM PSKAWGEVK 721 9 5603 PSM PSKAWGEVKR 721 10 0.0002 5604 PSA PSLYTKVVII 236 9 5605 PSA PSLYTKVVHY 236 10 0.0003 5606 PSA PSLYTKVVHYR 236 11 5607 PSM PSPEFSGMPR 502 10 5608 PAP PSWATEDTMTK 224 11 5609 PAP PSYKKLIMY 278 9 0.0002 5610 PSM PVHPIGYY 293 8 5611 Kallikrein PVSHSFPH 91 8 5612 Kallikrein PVSHSFPHPLY 91 11 5613 PAP QDLFGIWSK 200 9 0.0008 5614 PAP QDLFGIWSKVY 200 11 5615 PSM QGMPEGDLVY 167 10 5616 PAP QIPSYKKLIMY 276 11 5617 PSM QLAGAKGVILY 218 11 5618 PSM QLAKQIQSQWK 91 11 5619 PAP QLGMEQHY 72 8 5620 PAP QLLYLPFR 152 8 5621 PAP QLTQLGMEQII 69 10 5622 PAP QLTQLGMEQHY 69 11 5623 PSM QSGAAVVH 389 8 5624 Kallikrein QSLRPDEDSSH 109 11 5625 Kallikrein QVAVYSHGWAH 39 11 5626 PSA QVFQVSHSFPH 84 11 5627 PSA QVHPQKVTK 182 9 0.0140 5628 PSA QVLVASRGR 35 9 0.0018 5629 PSA QVSHSFPH 87 8 5630 PSA QVSHSFPHPLY 87 11 5631 PAP QVYIRSTDVDR 101 11 5632 PAP RAAPLLLAR 2 9 0.1200 5633 PAP RATQIPSY 273 8 5634 PAP RATQIPSYK 273 9 0.0600 5635 PAP RATQIPSYKK 273 10 0.0250 5636 PSA RAVCGGVLVH 43 10 0.0310 5637 PSM RDMKINCSGK 190 10 0.0002 5638 PSM RDYAVVLR 598 8 5639 PSM RDYAVVLRK 598 9 0.0190 5640 PSM RDYAVVLRKY 598 10 5641 PSA RFLRPGDDSSH 105 11 5642 PAP RFQELESETLK 163 11 5643 PSM RGAVEPDR 363 8 5644 PSM RGAVEPDRY 363 9 5645 PSM RGSLKVPY 320 8 5646 Kallikrein RIVGGWECEK 24 10 0.0670 5647 PSA RIVGGWECEK 20 10 0.0670 5648 Kallikrein RIVGGWECEKH 24 11 5649 PSA RIVGGWECEKH 20 11 5650 PSM RIYNVIGTLR 354 10 0.4300 5651 PSM RLGIASGR 527 8 5652 PSM RLGIASGRAR 527 10 5653 PSM RLGIASGRARY 527 11 5654 PSM RLLQERGVAY 440 10 0.0005 5655 PAP RNETQHEPY 332 9 0.0002 5656 PSA RNKSVILLGR 64 10 5657 PSA RNKSVILLGRH 64 11 5658 PSM RSFGTLKK 400 8 5659 Kallikrein RSLQCVSLH 169 9 5660 PAP RSVLAKELK 28 9 0.1100 5661 PSM RTEDFFKLER 181 10 5662 PSM RVDCTPLMY 463 9 5663 Kallikrein RVPVSHSFPH 89 10 5664 PSM SAPPDSSWR 312 9 0.0012 5665 PSM SAVATARR 10 8 5666 PSM SAVATARRPR tO 10 5667 PAP SCHLTELY 312 8 5668 PAP SCHLTELYFEK 312 11 5669 PSM SFDSLFSAVK 628 10 5670 PSM SFGTLKKEGWR 401 11 5671 PSM SGAAVVHEIVR 390 11 5672 PSM SGKIVIAR 197 8 5673 PSM SGKIVIARY 197 9 5674 PSM SGKIVIARYGK 197 11 5675 PAP SGLQMALDVY 294 10 5676 PSM SGMPRISK 507 8 5677 PSM SGNDFEVFFQR 517 11 5678 PSM SGRARYTK 532 8 5679 PSM SGYPLYHSVY 547 10 5680 PSM SIEGNYTLR 455 9 5681 Kallikrein SIEPEEFLR 159 9 5682 Kallikrein SIEPEEFLRPR 159 11 5683 PSA SIEPEEPLTPK 155 11 5684 PSM SIPVHPIGY 291 9 5685 PSM SIPVHPIGYY 291 10 1.4000 5686 PSM SISMKHPQEMK 613 11 5687 PSM SIVLPFDCR 590 9 0.0220 5688 PSM SIVLPFDCRDY 590 11 5689 PSM SLFEPPPPGY 142 10 5690 Kallikrein SLLKHQSLR 104 9 5691 PSA SLLKNRFLR 100 9 0.0470 5692 PAP SLLSLYGIH 242 9 0.0002 5693 PAP SLLSLYGIHK 242 10 2.3000 5694 Kallikrein SLQCVSLH 170 8 5695 Kallikrein SLRPDEDSSH 110 10 5696 PSM SLVHNLTK 472 8 5697 PSM SLVHNLTKELK 472 11 5698 PSM SLYESWTK 492 8 5699 PSM SLYESWTKK 492 9 2.0000 5700 PAP SLYGIHKQK 245 9 0.8000 5701 PAP SLYGIHKQKEK 245 11 5702 PSA SLYTKVVH 237 8 5703 PSA SLYTKVVHY 237 9 0.0140 5704 PSA SLYTKVVHYR 237 10 0.2300 5705 PSA SLYTKVVHYRK 237 11 5706 PSM SMKHPQEMK 615 9 0.0720 5707 PSM SMKHPQEMKTY 615 11 5708 Kallikrein SNDMCARAY 180 9 5709 PSA SNDVCAQVH 176 9 5710 PSM SNEATNITPK 46 10 5711 PSM SNEATNITPKH 46 11 5712 Kallikrein SSHDLMLLR 117 9 1.2000 5713 PSA SSHDLMLLR 113 9 1.2000 5714 PSM SSIEGNYTLR 454 10 0.0910 5715 PSM SSNEATNITPK 45 11 5716 PSM SSWRGSLK 317 8 5717 PSM SSWRGSLKVPY 317 11 5718 PAP STECMTTNSH 369 10 5719 PSM STEWAEENSR 431 10 0.0016 5720 PSM STNEVTRIY 348 9 0.0083 5721 PSM STQKVKMH 338 8 5722 PSM STQKVKMHIH 338 10 5723 PSA SVILLGRH 67 8 5724 PAP SVLAKELK 29 8 0.0061 5725 PSM SVYETYELVEK 554 11 5726 PSA TAAHCIRNK 58 9 0.0140 5727 Kallikrein TAAHCLKK 62 8 5728 PSM TDSAVATAR 8 9 5729 PSM TDSAVATARR 8 10 5730 PAP TFPTDPIK 52 8 5731 Kallikrein TGAVPLIQSR 15 10 5732 PSM TGNFSTQK 334 8 5733 PSM TGNFSTQKVK 334 10 0.0002 5734 Kallikrein TGQRVPVSH 86 9 5735 PSA TGQVFQVSH 82 9 0.0002 5736 PAP TLGKLSGLH 190 9 5737 PSM TLKKEGWR 404 8 5738 PSM TLKKEGWRPR 404 10 0.0002 5739 PSM TLKKEGWRPRR 404 11 5740 PAP TLKSEEFQK 171 9 0.0078 5741 PAP TLKSEEFQKR 171 10 0.0001 5742 PSM TLRGAVEPDR 361 10 0.0002 5743 PSM TLRGAVEPDRY 361 11 5744 PSM TLRVDCTPLMY 461 11 5745 PAP TLVFRHGDR 39 9 0.0002 5746 PSM TNEVTRIY 349 8 5747 PSM TNITPKHNMK 50 10 5748 PSM TNKFSGYPLY 543 10 5749 PSM TNKFSGYPLYH 543 11 5750 PSM TSLFEPPPPGY 141 11 5751 PAP TVPLSEDQLLY 145 11 5752 PSM VATARRPR 12 8 5753 Kallikrein VAVYSHGWAR 40 10 5754 PSA VCAQVHPQK 179 9 5755 PSA VCGGVLVH 45 8 5756 PSM VDCTPLMY 464 8 5757 PSM VDPSKAWGEVK 719 11 5758 PSA VFQVSHSFPH 85 10 5759 PSM VFRGNKVK 208 8 5760 Kallikrein VGGWECEK 26 8 5761 PSA VGGWECEK 22 8 5762 Kallikrein VGGWECEKH 26 9 5763 PSA VGGWECEKH 22 9 5764 PSM VGLPSIPVH 287 9 5765 PSM VIARYGKVFR 201 10 5766 PSA VILLGRHSLFH 68 11 5767 PSM VILYSDPADY 225 10 5768 PSA VISNDVCAQVH 174 11 5769 PSM VIYAPSSH 690 8 5770 PSM VIYAPSSHNK 690 10 0.7900 5771 PSM VIYAPSSHNKY 690 11 5772 PSM VLLSYPNK 115 8 5773 PSM VLLSYPNKTH 115 10 5774 PSM VLPFDCRDY 592 9 5775 PSM VLRKYADK 603 8 5776 PSM VLRKYADKIY 603 10 5777 PSA VLTAAHCIR 56 9 0.0005 5778 PSA VLTAAHCIRNK 56 11 5779 Kallikrein VLTAAHCLK 60 9 5780 Kallikrein VLTAAHCLKK 60 10 5781 PSA VLVASRGR 36 8 5782 PAP VLVNEILNH 262 9 0.0030 5783 PAP VLVNEILNHMK 262 11 5784 PAP VNEILNHMK 264 9 5785 PAP VNEILNHMKR 264 10 5786 PSM VNYARTEDFFK 177 11 5787 PSM VSFDSLFSAVK 627 11 5788 PAP VSGLQMALDVY 293 11 5789 Kallikrein VSHSFPHPLY 92 10 0.0015 5790 PSA VSHSFPHPLY 88 10 0.0015 5791 PSA VTKFMLCAGR 188 10 0.0120 5792 PAP VTLVFRHGDR 38 10 5793 Kallikrein VVHYRKWIK 246 9 0.0930 5794 PSA VVHYRKWIK 242 9 0.0930 5795 PSM VVLRKYADK 602 9 0.0660 5796 PSM VVLRKYADKIY 602 11 5797 Kallikrein WAHCGGVLVH 47 10 5798 PAP WATEDTMTK 226 9 0.0002 5799 PAP WATEDTMTKLR 226 11 5800 PSM WGEVKRQIY 725 9 5801 Kallikrein WGPEPCALPEK 229 11 5802 PSA WGSEPCALPER 225 11 5803 Kallikrein WGSIEPEEFLR 157 11 5804 PSA WIGAAPLILSR 10 11 5805 PAP WLDRSVLAK 25 9 0.0150 5806 PSM WNLPGGGVQR 246 10 5807 PAP WSKVYDPLY 206 9 0.0002 5808 PAP WSTECMTTNSH 368 11 5809 PSA WVLTAAHCIR 55 10 0.0001 5810 Kallikrein WVLTAAHGLK 59 10 5811 Kallikrein WVLTAAHCLKK 59 11 5812 PSM YADKIYSISMK 607 11 5813 PSM YAGESFPGIY 700 10 5814 PSM YAPSSHNK 692 8 5815 PSM YAPSSHNKY 692 9 5816 PSM YARTEDFFK 179 9 5817 PAP YASCHLTELY 310 10 0.0002 5818 PSM YAVVLRKY 600 8 5819 PSM YAVVLRKYADK 600 11 5820 PSM YDALFDIESK 709 10 5821 PSM YDAQKLLEK 300 9 0.0002 5822 PSA YDMSLLKNR 97 9 5823 PAP YDPLYCESVH 210 10 5824 PSM YDPMFKYH 566 8 5825 PSM YDVLLSYPNK 113 10 0.0016 5826 PSM YFAPGVKSY 234 9 5827 PAP YFVEMYYR 325 8 5828 PAP YGIHKQKEK 247 9 0.0002 5829 PAP YGIHKQKEKSR 247 11 5830 PSM YGKVFRGNK 205 9 0.0002 5831 PSM YGKVFRGNKVK 205 11 5832 PAP YIRKRYRK 84 8 5833 PAP YIRSTDVDR 103 9 5834 PAP YLPFRNCPR 155 9 5835 PSM YNFTQIPH 75 8 5836 PAP YNGLLPPY 303 8 5837 Kallikrein YNMSLLKH 101 8 5838 PSM YNVIGTLR 356 8 5839 PSM YSLVHNLTK 471 9 0.5400 5840 PSM YTKNWETNK 537 9 5841 Kallikrein YTKVVHYR 243 8 5842 PSA YTKVVHYR 239 8 5843 Kallikrein YTKVVHYRK 243 9 0.0580 5844 PSA YTKVVHYRK 239 9 0.0580 5845 PSM YVILGGHR 371 8 5846

TABLE XVIII Prostate A24 Motif Peptides with Binding Data No. of Seq. Amino Id. Protein Sequence Position Acids A*2401 no. PSM AFIDPLGL 674 8 5847 PSM AFLDELKAENI 60 11 5848 PSM AFTVQAAAETL 736 11 5849 PAP AMTNLAAL 116 8 5850 PAP AMTNLAALF 116 9 0.0150 5851 PSM AWGEVKRQI 724 9 5852 PSM AYINADSSI 448 9 0.0190 5853 Kallikrein AYSEKVTEF 187 9 5854 Kallikrein AYSEKVTEFML 187 11 5855 Kallikrein CYASGWGSI 152 9 0.1700 5856 PSA CYASGWGSI 148 9 0.1700 5857 PSM DFDKSNPI 652 8 5858 PSM DFDKSNPIVL 652 10 5859 PSM DFEVFFQRL 520 9 5860 PSM DFEVFFQRLGI 520 11 5861 PSM DFFKLERDMKI 184 11 5862 PAP DFIATLGKL 186 9 0.0002 5863 PSM DMKINCSGKI 191 10 5864 PSA DMSLLKNRF 98 9 0.0001 5865 PSA DMSLLKNRFL 98 10 5866 PSM EFGLDSVEL 102 9 5867 PSM EFGLLGSTEW 425 10 5868 Kallikrein EFLRPRSL 164 8 5869 PSA EFLTPKKL 160 8 5870 Kallikrein EFMLCAGL 194 8 5871 Kallikrein EFMLCAGLW 194 9 5872 PSM EFSGMPRI 505 8 5873 PSM EFSGMPRISKL 505 11 5874 PSM EMKTYSVSF 621 9 0.0010 5875 PSM EWAEENSRL 433 9 5876 PSM EWAEENSRLL 433 10 5877 PSM EYAYRRGI 276 8 5878 PAP EYIRKRYRKF 83 10 0.0067 5879 PAP EYIRKRYRKFL 83 11 5880 PSM FFKLERDMKI 185 10 5881 PSM FFLLGFLF 32 8 5882 PSM FFLLGFLFGW 32 10 0.0026 5883 PSM FFLLGFLFGWF 32 11 5884 PAP FFWLDRSVL 23 9 0.0017 5885 Kallikrein FMLCAGLW 195 8 5886 PSA FMLCAGRW 191 8 5887 PAP FWLDRSVL 24 8 5888 PSM FYDPMFKYHL 565 10 1.1000 5889 PSM GFEGKSLYESW 487 11 5890 PSM GFFLLGFL 31 8 5891 PSM GFFLLGFLF 31 9 0.0190 5892 PSM GFFLLGFLFGW 31 11 5893 PAP GFGQLTQL 66 8 5894 PSM GFLFGWFI 36 8 5895 PAP GFLFLLFF 17 8 5896 PAP GFLFLLFFW 17 9 0.0016 5897 PAP GFLFLLFFWL 17 10 0.0007 5898 PAP GMEQHYEL 74 8 5899 PSM GMPRISKL 508 8 5900 PSM GMVFELANSI 582 10 0.0002 5901 Kallikrein GWAHCGGVL 46 9 5902 Kallikrein GWECEKHSQPW 28 11 5903 PSA GWECEKHSQPW 24 11 5904 Kallikrein GWGSIEPEEF 156 10 0.0001 5905 PSA GWGSIEPEEF 152 10 0.0001 5906 Kallikrein GWGSIEPEEFL 156 11 5907 PSA GWGSIEPEEFL 152 11 5908 PSM GWRPRRTI 409 8 5909 PSM GWRPRRTIL 409 9 5910 PSM GWRPRRTILF 409 10 0.0540 5911 PSM GYENVSDI 150 8 5912 PSM GYYDAQKL 298 8 5913 PSM GYYDAQKLL 298 9 5914 PAP HMKRATQI 270 8 5915 PAP HYELGEYI 78 8 5916 Kallikrein HYRKWIKDTI 248 10 0.0550 5917 PSA HYRKWIKDTI 244 10 0.0550 5918 PAP IWNPILLW 131 8 5919 PAP IWNPILLWQPI 131 11 5920 PAP IWSKVYDPL 205 9 0.0024 5921 PSM IYDALFDI 708 8 5922 PSM IYNVIGTL 355 8 5923 PSM KFLYNFTQI 72 9 5924 PSA KFMLCAGRW 190 9 0.0310 5925 PSM KFSERLQDF 645 9 5926 PSM KFYDPMFKYHL 564 11 5927 PSM KYADKIYSI 606 9 12.0000 5928 PSM KYAGESFPGI 699 10 5929 PSM LFASWDAEEF 417 10 5930 PAP LFFWLDRSVL 22 10 0.0045 5931 PSA LFHPEDTGQVF 76 11 5932 PAP LFLLFFWL 19 8 5933 PAP LFPPEGVSI 123 9 0.0033 5934 PAP LFPPEGVSIW 123 10 0.0140 5935 PSM LFSAVKNF 632 8 5936 PSM LFSAVKNFTEI 632 11 5937 PSM LMFLERAF 668 8 5938 PSM LMFLERAFI 668 9 0.0075 5939 PAP LMSAMTNL 113 8 5940 PAP LMSAMTNLAAL 113 11 5941 PSM LMYSLVHNL 469 9 5942 PAP LYCESVHNF 213 9 0.4400 5943 PAP LYGESVHNFTL 213 11 5944 PSA LYDMSLLKNRF 96 11 0.1200 5945 PAP LYFEKGEYF 318 9 2.5000 5946 PSM LYHSVYETYEL 551 11 5947 PAP LYLPFRNCPRF 154 11 5948 PSM LYNFTQIPHL 74 10 0.2300 5949 PSM LYSDPADYF 227 9 0.4400 5950 PSA LYTKVVHYRKW 238 11 5951 PSM MFLERAFI 669 8 5952 PSM MFLERAFIDPL 669 11 5953 PSM MMNDQLMF 663 8 5954 PSM MMNDQLMFL 663 9 5955 Kallikrein MWDLVLSI 1 8 5956 Kallikrein MWDLVLSIAL 1 10 5957 PSM MYSLVHNL 470 8 5958 PSM NFQLAKQI 89 8 5959 PSM NFSTQKVKMHI 336 11 5960 PSM NFTEIASKF 638 9 0.0001 5961 PSM NFTQIPHL 76 8 5962 PSM NMKAFLDEL 57 9 5963 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSL 102 10 5964 PSM NYARTEDF 178 8 5965 PSM NYARTEDFF 178 9 0.7700 5966 PSM NYARTEDFFKL 178 11 5967 PSM NYTLRVDCTPL 459 11 5968 PSM PFDCRDYAVVL 594 11 5969 PAP PFRNCPRF 157 8 5970 PAP PFRNCPRFQEL 157 11 5971 Kallikrein PWQVAVYSHGW 37 11 5972 PAP PYASCHLTEL 309 10 0.0240 5973 PAP PYKDFIATL 183 9 0.1100 5974 PSM PYNVGPGF 326 8 5975 PAP QMALDVYNGL 297 10 0.0001 5976 PAP QMALDVYNGLL 297 11 5977 PSA QWVLTAAHCI 54 10 0.0007 5978 Kallikrein QWVLTAAHCL 58 10 5979 PAP RFAELVGPVI 355 10 0.0037 5980 PAP RFQELESETL 163 10 0.0001 5981 PSM RMMNDQLMF 662 9 5982 PSM RMMNDQLMFL 662 10 5983 PSM RWLCAGAL 19 8 5984 PSM RWLCAGALVL 19 10 5985 PSM RYTKNWETNKF 536 11 5986 PSM SFGTLKKEGW 401 10 5987 PSM SFPGIYDAL 704 9 5988 PSM SFPGIYDALF 704 10 5989 PSA SFPHPLYDMSL 91 11 5990 Kallikrein SFPHPLYNMSL 95 11 5991 PAP SWATEDTMTKL 225 11 5992 PSM SWDAEEFGL 420 9 5993 PSM SWDAEEFGLL 420 10 5994 Kallikrein SWGPEPCAL 228 9 5995 PSA SWGSEPCAL 224 9 0.0001 5996 PAP SWPQGFGQL 62 9 0.0013 5997 PSM SWTKKSPSPEF 496 11 5998 PAP SYKHEQVYI 96 9 0.2600 5999 PSM SYPDGWNL 241 8 6000 PSM SYPNKTHPNYI 118 11 6001 PAP TMTKLREL 231 8 6002 PAP TMTKLRELSEL 231 11 6003 PSA TWIGAAPL 9 8 6004 PSA TWIGAAPLI 9 9 0.1100 6005 PSA TWIGAAPLIL 9 10 0.3600 6006 PSM TYELVEKF 558 8 6007 PSM TYSVSFDSL 624 9 6008 PSM TYSVSFDSLF 624 10 3.2000 6009 PSM VFELANSI 584 8 6010 PSM VFELANSIVL 584 10 6011 PSM VFFQRLGI 523 8 6012 PSA VFLTLSVTW 2 9 2.1000 6013 PSA VFLTLSVTWI 2 10 0.0062 6014 PSA VFQVSHSF 85 8 6015 PAP VFRHGDRSPI 41 10 0.0005 6016 PSA VMDLPTQEPAL 134 11 6017 Kallikrein VWLGRHNL 73 8 6018 Kallikrein VWLGRHNLF 73 9 6019 PSM VYETYELVEKF 555 11 6020 Kallikrein VYTKVVHYRKW 242 11 6021 PSM VYVNYARTEDF 175 11 6022 PAP YFEKGEYF 319 8 6023 PSM YYDAQKLL 299 8 6024

TABLE XIX Prostate DR Supermotif Peptides Protein Sequence Seq. Id. No. Core Sequence Core Seq. Id. No Position PAP ---MRAAPLLLARAA 6025 MRAAPLLLA 6300 1 Kallikrein ---MWDLVLSIALSV 6026 MWDLVLSIA 6301 1 PSA ---VVFLTLSVTWIG 6027 VVFLTLSVT 6302 1 Kallikrein --MWDLVLSIALSVG 6028 WDLVLSIAL 6303 2 PSA --VVFLTLSVTWIGA 6029 VFLTLSVTW 6304 2 PSA -VVFLTLSVTWIGAA 6030 FLTLSVTWI 6305 3 PAP AALFPPEGVSIWNPI 6031 FPPEGVSIW 6306 124 PSA AAPLILSRIVGGWEC 6032 LILSRIVGG 6307 16 PAP AAPLLLARAASLSLG 6033 LLLARAASL 6308 6 PAP AASLSLGFLFLLFFW 6034 LSLGFLFLL 6309 14 PSM ADKIYSISMKHPQEM 6035 IYSISMKHP 6310 611 PSM AEAVGLPSIPVHPIG 6036 VGLPSIPVH 6311 287 PSM AEEFGLLGSTEWAEE 6037 FGLLGSTEW 6312 426 PAP AELVGPVIPQDWSTE 6038 VGPVIPQDW 6313 360 PSA AGRWTGGKSTCSGDS 6039 WTGGKSTCS 6314 198 PSA AHCIRNKSVILLGRH 6040 IRNKSVILL 6315 63 PAP AKELKFVTLVFRHGD 6041 LKFVTLVFR 6316 35 PAP ALDVYNGLLPPYASC 6042 VYNGLLPPY 6317 302 Kallikrein ALSVGGTGAVPLIQS 6043 VGCTGAVPL 6318 12 PSA APLILSRIVGGWECE 6044 ILSRIVGGW 6319 17 PAP APLLLARAASLSLGF 6045 LLARAASLS 6320 7 Kallikrein ARAYSEKVTEFMLCA 6046 YSEKVTEFM 6321 188 Kallikrein ASGWGSIEPEEFLRP 6047 WGSIEPEEF 6322 157 PSA ASGWGSIEPEEFLTP 6048 WGSIEPEEF 6323 153 PSM AVGLPSIPVHPIGYY 6049 LPSIPVHPI 6324 289 PSA AVKVMDLPTQEPALG 6050 VMDLPTQEP 6325 134 Kallikrein AVPLIQSRIVGGWEC 6051 LIQSRIVGG 6326 20 PSA CAQVHPQKVTKFMLC 6052 VHPQKVTKF 6327 183 PAP CESVHNFTLPSWATE 6053 VHNFTLPSW 6328 218 Kallikrein CNGVLQGITSWGPEP 6054 VLQGITSWG 6329 222 PSA CNGVLQGITSWGSEP 6055 VLQGITSWG 6330 218 PAP CPRFQELESETLKSE 6056 FQELESETL 6331 164 PSM CTPLMYSLVHNLTKE 6057 LMYSLVHNL 6332 469 PSM DEGFEGKSLYESWTK 6058 FEGKSLYES 6333 488 PSM DFEVFFQRLGIASGR 6059 VFFQRLGIA 6334 523 PSA DLHVISNDVCAQVHP 6060 VISNDVCAQ 6335 174 Kallikrein DLVLSIALSVGCTGA 6061 LSIALSVGC 6336 6 PSM DPMFKYHLTVAQVRG 6062 FKYHLTVAQ 6337 570 PSM DQLMFLERAFIDPLG 6063 MFLERAFID 6338 669 PSM DRPFYRHVIYAPSSH 6064 FYRHVIYAP 6339 686 PAP DRSVLAKELKFVTLV 6065 VLAKELKFV 6340 30 PAP DRTLMSAMTNLAALF 6066 LMSAMTNLA 6341 113 PSM DSSIEGNYTLRVDCT 6067 IEGNYTLRV 6342 456 PAP DTTVSGLQMALDVYN 6068 VSGLQMALD 6343 293 Kallikrein EEFLRPRSLQCVSLH 6069 LRPRSLQCV 6344 166 PSA EEFLTPKKLQCVDLH 6070 LTPKKLQCV 6345 162 PSM EFGLDSVELAHYDVL 6071 LDSVELAHY 6346 105 PSM ERDMKINCSGKIVIA 6072 MKINCSGKI 6347 192 PSM ERGVAYINADSSIEG 6073 VAYINADSS 6348 447 PSM ESKVDPSKAWGEVKR 6074 VDPSKAWGE 6349 719 PSM EVEFQRLGIASGRAR 6075 FQRLGIASG 6350 525 PSM EYAYRRGIAEAVGLP 6076 YRRGIAEAV 6351 279 PAP FAELVGPVIPQDWST 6077 LVGPVIPQD 6352 359 PAP FFWLDRSVLAKELKF 6078 LDRSVLAKE 6353 26 PAP FGQLTQLGMEQHYEL 6079 LTQLGMEQH 6354 70 PAP FLFLLFFWLDRSVLA 6080 LLFFWLDRS 6355 21 PSA FLTLSVTWIGAAPLI 6081 LSVTWIGAA 6356 6 PAP FQELESETLKSEEFQ 6082 LESETLKSE 6357 167 PSM FSAFSPQGMPEGDLV 6083 ISPQGMPEG 6358 164 PSM FSGYPLYHSVYETYE 6084 YPLYHSVYE 6359 549 PSM FTEIASKFSERLQDF 6085 IASKFSERL 6360 642 PSM GAAVVHEIVRSFGTL 6086 VVHEIVRSF 6361 394 PSM GDLVYVNYARTEDFF 6087 VYVNYARTE 6362 175 PSM GDPLTPGYPANEYAY 6088 LTPGYPANE 6363 268 PSM GGFFLLGFLFGWFIK 6089 FLLGFLFGW 6364 33 PSM GGGVQRGNILNLNGA 6090 VQRGNILNL 6365 253 PSA GGPLVCNGVLQGITS 6091 LVCNGVLQG 6366 213 Kallikrein GGPLVCNGVLQGITS 6092 LVCNGVLQG 6367 217 PAP GGVLVNEILNHMKRA 6093 LVNEILNHM 6368 263 PSM GKSLYESWTKKSPSP 6094 LYESWTKKS 6369 493 PSM GKVFRGNKVKNAQLA 6095 FRGNKVKNA 6370 209 PSM GMVFELANSIVLPFD 6096 FELANSIVL 6371 585 PSM GNEIFNTSLFEPPPP 6097 IFNTSLFEP 6372 138 PSM GNILNLNGAGDPLTP 6098 LNLNGAGDP 6373 259 PSM GNKVKNAQLAGAKGV 6099 VKNAQLAGA 6374 214 PSM GPGFTGNFSTQKVKM 6100 FTGNFSTQK 6375 333 PSA GPLVCNGVLQGITSW 6101 VCNGVLQGI 6376 214 Kallikrein GPLVGNGVLQGITSW 6102 VCNGVLQGI 6377 218 PAP GPVIPQDWSTEGMTT 6103 IPQDWSTEC 6378 364 PAP GQDLFGIWSKVYDPL 6104 LFGIWSKVY 6379 202 Kallikrein GQRVPVSHSFPHPLY 6105 VPVSHSFPH 6380 90 PSA GQVFQVSHSFPHPLY 6106 FQVSHSFPH 6381 86 PSA GRAVCGGVLVHPQWV 6107 VCGGVLVHP 6382 45 PSM GVAYINADSSIEGNY 6108 YINADSSIE 6383 449 PSM GVILYSDPADYFAPG 6109 LYSDPADYF 6384 227 PSA GVLVHPQWVLTAAHC 6110 VHPQWVLTA 6385 51 Kallikrein GVLVHPQWVLTAAHC 6111 VHPQWVLTA 6386 55 PAP GVSIWNPILLWQPIP 6112 IWNPILLWQ 6387 131 PSM GWNLPGGGVQRGNIL 6113 LPGGGVQRG 6388 248 PSA HDLMLLRLSEPAELT 6114 MLLRLSEPA 6389 118 Kallikrein HDLMLLRLSEPAKIT 6115 MLLRLSEPA 6390 122 PSM HEIVRSFGTLKKEGW 6116 VRSFGTLKK 6391 399 PAP HEPYPLMLPGCSPSC 6117 YPLMLPGCS 6392 340 PAP HEQVYIRSTDVDRTL 6118 VYIRSTDVD 6393 102 Kallikrein HNLFEPEDTGQRVPV 6119 FEPEDTGQR 6394 81 PSA HPLYDMSLLKNRFLR 6120 YDMSLLKNR 6395 97 Kallikrein HPLYNMSLLKHQSLR 6121 YNMSLLKHQ 6396 101 PSA HPQWVLTAAHCIRNK 6122 WVLTAAHCI 6397 55 Kallikrein HPOWVLTAAHCLKKN 6123 WVLTAAHCL 6398 59 PSA HSLFHPEDTGQVFQV 6124 FHPEDTGQV 6399 77 PSM HSVYETYELVEKFYD 6.125 YETYELVEK 6400 556 PSM HYDVLLSYPNKTHPN 6126 VLLSYPNKT 6401 115 PAP IDTFPTDPIKESSWP 6127 FPTDPIKES 6402 53 PSM IGYYDAQKLLEKMGG 6128 YDAQKLLEK 6403 300 PSM IKKFLYNFTQIPIILA 6129 VLYNPTQIP 6404 73 PAP ILLWQPIPVHTVPLS 6130 WQPIPVHTV 6405 138 PAP IPSYKKLIMYSAHDT 6131 YKKLIMYSA 6406 280 Kallikrein ITSWGPEPCALPEKP 6132 WGPEPCALP 6407 229 PSA ITSWGSEPCALPERP 6133 WGSEPCALP 6408 225 PSM IYSISMKHPQEMKTY 6134 ISMKHPQEM 6409 614 PSM KAFLDELKAENIKKF 6135 LDELKAENI 6410 62 PSM KEGWRPRRTILFASW 6136 WRPRRTILF 6411 410 PSM KFLYNFTQIPHLAGT 6137 YNFTQIPHL 6412 75 PSM KGVILYSDPADYFAP 6138 ILYSDPADY 6413 226 Kllikrein KPAVYTKVVHYRKWI 6139 VYTKVVHYR 6414 242 PAP KSRLQGGVLVNEILN 6140 LQGGVLVNE 6415 258 PSM KVKMHHSTNEVTRI 6141 MHIHSTNEV 6416 344 PSM KYHLTVAQVRGGMVF 6142 LTVAQVRGG 6417 574 PSM LAHYDVLLSYPNKTH 6143 YDVLLSYPN 6418 113 PSM LDELKAENIKKFLYN 6144 LKAENIKKF 6419 65 PAP LDVYNGLLPPYASCH 6145 YNGLLPPYA 6420 303 PSM LEKMGGSAPPDSSWR 6146 MGGSAPPDS 6421 309 PAP LFFWLDRSVLAKELK 6147 WLDRSVLAK 6422 25 PSM LFGWFIKSSNEATNI 6148 WFIKSSNEA 6423 41 PSM LGFLFGWFIKSSNEA 6149 LFGWFIKSS 6424 38 Kallikrein LHLLSNDMCARAYSE 6150 LSNDMCARA 6425 179 PAP LHPYKDFIATLGKLS 6151 YKDFIATLG 6426 184 PSA LHVISNDVCAQVHPQ 6152 ISNDVCAQV 6427 175 PAP LIMYSAHDTTVSGLQ 6153 YSAHDTTVS 6428 286 PAP LLFFWLDRSVLAKEL 6154 FWLDRSVLA 6429 24 PAP LLYLPFRNCPRFQEL 6155 LPFRNCPRF 6430 156 PSM LMFLERAFIDPLGLP 6156 LERAFIDPL 6431 671 PSA LMLLRLSEPAELTDA 6157 LRLSEPAEL 6432 120 Kallikrein LMLLRLSEPAKITDV 6158 LRLSEPAKI 6433 124 PAP LPPYASCHLTELYFE 6159 YASCHLTEL 6434 310 PSM LPSIPVHPIGYYDAQ 6160 IPVHPIGYY 6435 292 PAP LPSWATEDTMTKLRE 6161 WATEDTMTK 6436 226 PSA LQCVDLHVISNDVCA 6162 VDLHVISND 6437 170 Kallikrein LQCVSLHLLSNDMCA 6163 VSLHLLSND 6438 174 PSM LQDFDKSNPIVLRMM 6164 FDKSNPIVL 6439 653 Kallikrein LQGITSWGPEPCALP 6165 ITSWGPEPC 6440 226 PSA LQGITSWGSEPCALP 6166 ITSWGSEPC 6441 222 PAP LRELSELSLLSLYGI 6167 LSELSLLSL 6442 238 PSM LRMMNDQLMFLERAF 6168 MNDQLMFLE 6443 664 PAP LSELSLLSLYGIHKQ 6169 LSLLSLYGI 6444 241 PAP LSGLHGQDLFGIWSK 6170 LHGQDLFGI 6445 197 PAP LSLLSLYGIHKQKEK 6171 LSLYGIHKQ 6446 244 PSM LVYVNYARTEDFFKL 6172 VNYARTEDF 6447 177 PSM MFKYHLTVAQVRGGM 6173 YHLTVAQVR 6448 572 PSM MPRISKLGSGNDFEV 6174 ISKLGSGND 6449 512 PAP MSAMTNLAALFPPEG 6175 MTNLAALFP 6450 117 Kallikrein MSLLKHQSLRPDEDS 6176 LKHQSLRPD 6451 106 PSA MSLLKNRFLRPGDDS 6177 LKNRFLRPG 6452 102 PAP MTNLAALFPPEGVSI 6178 LAALFPPEG 6453 120 Kallikrein MWDLVLSIALSVGCT 6179 LVLSTALSV 6454 4 PSM MYSLVHNLTKELKSP 6180 LVHNLTKEL 6455 473 PAP NESYKHEQVYIRSTD 6181 YKHEQVYIR 6456 97 PAP NFTLPSWATEDTMTK 6182 LPSWATEDT 6457 223 PAP NGLLPPYASCHLTEL 6183 LPPYASCHL 6458 307 Kallikrein NGVLQGITSWGPEPC 6184 LQGITSWGP 6459 223 PSA NGVLQGITSWGSEPC 6185 LQGITSWGS 6460 219 Kallikrein NMSLLKHQSLRPDED 6186 LLKHQSLRP 6461 105 PAP NPILLWQPIPVHTVP 6187 LLWQPIPVH 6462 136 PSM NSIVLPFDCRDYAVV 6188 VLPFDCRDY 6463 592 PSM NTSLFEPPPPGYENV 6189 LFEPPPPGY 6464 143 PSM NYTLRVDCTPLMYSL 6190 LRVDCTPLM 6465 462 PSM PADYFAPGVKSYPDG 6191 YFAPGVKSY 6466 234 Kallikrein PCALPEKPAVYTKVV 6192 LPEKPAVYT 6467 236 PSA PCALPERPSLYTKVV 6193 LPERPSLYT 6468 232 Kallikrein PEEFLRPRSLQCVSL 6194 FLRPRSLQC 6469 165 PAP PEGVSIWNPILLWQP 6195 VSIWNPILL 6470 129 PSA PHPLYDMSLLKNRFL 6196 LYDMSLLKN 6471 96 Kallikrein PHPLYNMSLLKHQSL 6197 LYNMSLLKH 6472 100 PAP PILLWQPIPVHTVPL 6198 LWQPIPVHT 6473 137 PAP PIPVHTVPLSEDQLL 6199 VHTVPLSED 6474 143 PSA PKKLQCVDLHVISND 6200 LQCVDLHVI 6475 167 PAP PLLLARAASLSLGFL 6201 LARAASLSL 6476 8 PAP PLMLPGCSPSCPLER 6202 LPGCSPSCP 6477 344 PAP PQDWSTECMTTNSHQ 6203 WSTECMTTN 6478 368 PSM PQEMKTYSVSFDSLF 6204 MKTYSVSFD 6479 622 PSM PQGMPEGDLVYVNYA 6205 MPEGDLVYV 6480 169 PSA PQKVTKFMLCAGRWT 6206 VTKFMLCAG 6481 188 Kallikrein PRSLQCVSLHLLSND 6207 LQCVSLHLL 6482 171 PSM PRWLCAGALVLAGGF 6208 LCAGALVLA 6483 21 PSM PYNVGPGFTGNFSTQ 6209 VGPGFTGNF 6484 329 PAP PYPLMLPGCSPSGPL 6210 LMLPGCSPS 6485 342 PAP QGGVLVNEILNHMKR 6211 VLVNEILNH 6486 262 PSM QIYVAAFTVQAAAET 6212 VAAFTVQAA 6487 734 PSM QSQWKEFGLDSVELA 6213 WKEFGLDSV 6488 100 Kallikrein QVWLGRHNLFEPEDT 6214 LGRHNLFEP 6489 75 PAP QVYIRSTDVDRTLMS 6215 IRSTDVDRT 6490 104 PSA QWVLTAAHCIRNKSV 6216 LTAAHCIRN 6491 57 Kallikrein QWVLTAAHCLKKNSQ 6217 LTAAHCLKK 6492 61 PSM RAFIDPLGLPDRPFY 6218 IDPLGLPDR 6493 676 PSM RDSWVFGGIDPQSGA 6219 WVFGGIDPQ 6494 381 PSM RGGMVHFELANSIVLP 6220 MVFELANSI 6495 583 PSM RHVIYAPSSHNKYAG 6221 IYAPSSHNK 6496 691 Kallikrein RKWIKDTIAANP--- 6222 IKDTIAANP 6497 253 PSA RKWIKDTIVANP--- 6223 IKDTIVANP 6498 249 PSM RLGIASGRARYTKNW 6224 IASGRARYT 6499 530 PSM RPRWLCAGALVLAGG 6225 WLCAGALVL 6500 20 PSA RPSLYTKVVHYRKWI 6226 LYTKVVHYR 6501 238 PSM RQIYVAAFTVQAAAE 6227 YVAAFTVQA 6502 733 PAP RSPIDTFPTDPIKES 6228 IDTFPTDPI 6503 50 Kallikrein RVPVSNSFPHPLYNM 6229 VSHSFPHPL 6504 92 PSM SDIVPPFSAFSPQGM 6230 VPPFSAFSP 6505 158 Kallikrein SEKVTEFMLCAGLWT 6231 VTEFMLCAG 6506 192 PSA SHDLMLLRLSEPAEL 6232 LMLLRLSEP 6507 117 Kallikrein SHDLMLLRLSEPAKI 6233 LMLLRLSEP 6508 121 Kallikrein SIALSVGCTGAVPLI 6234 LSVGCTGAV 6509 10 PAP SKVYDPLYCESVHNF 6235 YDPLYCESV 6510 210 Kallikrein SLHLLSNDMCARAYS 6236 LLSNDMCAR 6511 178 PAP SLSLGFLFLLFFWLD 6237 LGFLFLLFF 6512 16 PSM SNPIVLRMMNDQLMF 6238 IVLRMMNDQ 6513 659 PSA SQPWQVLVASRGRAV 6239 WQVLVASRG 6514 34 PSA SRIVGGWECEKHSQP 6240 VGGWECEKH 6515 22 Kallikrein SRIVGGWECEKHSQP 6241 VGGWECEKH 6516 26 PSM SRLLQERGVAYINAD 6242 LQERGVAYI 6517 442 PAP STDVDRTLMSAMTNL 6243 VDRTLMSAM 6518 109 PSM STEWAEENSRLLQER 6244 WAEENSRLL 6519 434 PSM SVELAHYDVLLSYPN 6245 LAHYDVLLS 6520 110 PSA SVILLGRHSLFHPED 6246 LLGRHSLFH 6521 70 PSM SVSFDSLFSAVKNFT 6247 FDSLFSAVK 6522 629 PSA SVTWIGAAPLILSRI 6248 WIGAAPLIL 6523 10 PSM SWVFGGIDPQSGAAV 6249 FGGIDPQSG 6524 383 PSA TDAVKVMDLPTQEPA 6250 VKVMDLPTQ 6525 132 Kallikrein TDVVKVLGLPTQEPA 6251 VKVLGLPTQ 6526 136 Kallikrein TEFMLCAGLWTGGKD 6252 MLCAGLWTG 6527 196 Kallikrein TGAVPLIQSRIVGGW 6253 VPLIQSRIV 6528 18 PSM TGNFSTQKVKMHIHS 6254 FSTQKVKMH 6529 337 PSM TILFASWDAEEFGLL 6255 FASWDAEEF 6530 418 PSM TLRVDCTPLMYSLVH 6256 VDCTPLMYS 6531 464 PSA TLSVTWIGAAPLILS 6257 VTWIGAAPL 6532 8 PSM TNKFSGYPLYHSVYE 6258 FSGYPLYHS 6533 546 PSM TRIYNVTGTLRGAVE 6259 YNVIGTLRG 6534 356 PSM TSLFEPPPPGYENVS 6260 FEPPPPGYE 6535 144 PAP TVPLSEDQLLYLPFR 6261 LSEDQLLYL 6536 148 PSM TYSVSFDSLFSAVKN 6262 VSFDSLFSA 6537 627 PSM VAAFTVQAAAETLSE 6263 FTVQAAAET 6538 737 PSM VAQVRGGMVFELANS 6264 VRGGMVFEL 6539 579 Kallikrein VAVYSHGWAHCGGVL 6265 YSHGWAHCG 6540 43 PSM VAYINADSSIEGNYT 6266 INADSSIEG 6541 450 PAP VEMYYRNETQHEPYP 6267 YYRNETQHE 6542 330 PSN VFELANSIVLPFDCR 6268 LANSIVLPF 6543 587 PSA VFQVSHSFPHPLYDM 6269 VSHSFPHPL 6544 88 PSM VHPIGYYDAQKLLEK 6270 IGYYDAQKL 6545 297 PSA VILLGRHSLFHPEDT 6271 LGRHSLFHP 6546 71 PSN VKNFTEIASKFSERL 6272 FTEIASKFS 6547 639 Kallikrein VLGLPTQEPALGTTC 6273 LPTQEPALG 6548 141 PSM VLRMMNDQLMFLERA 6274 MMNDQLMFL 6549 663 PSA VMDLPTQEPALGTTC 6275 LPTQEPALG 6550 137 Kallikrein VPLIQSRIVGGWECE 6276 IQSRIVGGW 6551 21 PSM VPPFSAFSPQGMPEG 6277 FSAFSPQGM 6552 161 PSM VSDIVPPFSAFSPQG 6278 IVPPFSAFS 6553 157 PAP VSIWNPILLWQPIPV 6279 WNPILLWQP 6554 132 PSA VTWIGAAPLILSRIV 6280 IGAAPLILS 6555 11 PSA VVFLTLSVTWIGAAP 6281 LTLSVTWIG 6556 4 Kallikrein VVKVLGLPTQEPALG 6282 VLGLPTQEP 6557 138 Kallikrein WDLVLSIALSVGCTG 6283 VLSIALSVG 6558 5 PSM WKEFGLDSVELAHYD 6284 FGLDSVELA 6559 103 PSM WNLLHETDSAVATAR 6285 LHETDSAVA 6560 5 PAP WNPILLWQPIPVHTV 6286 ILLWQPIPV 6561 135 PAP WQPIPVHTVPLSEDQ 6287 IPVHTVPLS 6562 141 PSM YAVVLRKYADKTYSI 6288 VLRKYADKI 6563 603 PSM YDALFDIESKVDPSK 6289 LFDIESKVD 6564 712 PAP YDPLYCESVHNFTLP 6290 LYCESVHNF 6565 213 PSM YDPMFKYHLTVAQVR 6291 MFKYHLTVA 6566 569 PSM YENVSDIVPPFSAFS 6292 VSDIVPPFS 6567 154 PSM YESWTKKSPSPEFSG 6293 WTKKSPSPE 6568 497 PAP YKKLIMYSAHDTTVS 6294 LIMYSAHDT 6569 283 PAP YNGLLPPYASCHLTE 6295 LLPPYASGH 6570 306 PAP YPLMLPGCSPSCPLE 6296 MLPGGSPSC 6571 343 PSM YRHVIYAPSSHNKYA 6297 VIYAPSSHN 6572 690 Kallikrein YRKWIKDTIAANP-- 6298 WIKDTIAAN 6573 252 PSA YRKWIKDTIVANP-- 6299 WIKDTIVAN 6574 248

TABLE XXa Prostate DR 3a Submotif Peptides Protein Sequence Seq. Id. No. Core Sequence Core Seq. Id. No Position PAP AALFPPEGVSIWNPI 6575 FPPEGVSIW 6615 124 PSM DQLMFLERAFIDPLG 6576 MFLERAFID 6616 669 PSM EDFFKLERDMKINCS 6577 FKLERDMKI 6617 186 PAP EMYYRNETQHEPYPL 6578 YRNETQHEP 6618 331 PSM FGTLKKEGWRPRRTI 6579 LKKEGWRPR 6619 405 PAP FQELESETLKSEEFQ 6580 LESETLKSE 6620 167 PSM GAAVVHEIVRSFGTL 6581 VVHEIVRSF 6621 394 PAP GGVLVNEILNHMKRA 6582 LVNEILNHM 6622 263 PAP GLQMALDVYNGLLPP 6583 MALDVYNGL 6623 298 PAP GPVIPQDWSTECMTT 6584 IPQDWSTEC 6624 364 PSM GVILYSDPADYFAPG 6585 LYSDPADYF 6625 227 PSM HNKYAGESFPGIYDA 6586 YAGESFPGI 6626 700 Kallikrein HNLFEPEDTGQRVPV 6587 FEPEDTGQR 6627 81 Kallikrein HQSLRPDEDSSHDLM 6588 LRPDEDSSH 6628 111 PSA HSLFHPEDTGQVFQV 6589 FHPEDTGQV 6629 77 PAP IDTFPTDPIKESSWP 6590 FPTDPIKES 6630 53 PSM ISIINEDGNEIFNTS 6591 INEDGNEIF 6631 131 PAP KGEYFVEMYYRNETQ 6592 YFVEMYYRN 6632 325 PSM LDELKAENIKKFLYN 6593 LKAENIKKF 6633 65 Kallikrein LHLLSNDMCARAYSE 6594 LSNDMCARA 6634 179 PSA LHVISNDVCAQVHPQ 6595 ISNDVCAQV 6635 175 PAP LLFFWLDRSVLAKEL 6596 FWLDRSVLA 6636 24 PAP LTELYFEKGEYFVEM 6597 LYFEKGEYF 6637 318 PSM MWNLLHETDSAVATA 6598 LLHETDSAV 6638 4 PAP NESYKHEQVYIRSTD 6599 YKHEQVYIR 6639 97 PSM NSRLLQERGVAYINA 6600 LLQERGVAY 6640 441 PSM NYTLRVDCTPLMYSL 6601 LRVDCTPLM 6641 462 PSM RGAVEPDRYVILGGH 6602 VEPDRYVIL 6642 366 PSM RGGMVFELANSIVLP 6603 MVFELANSI 6643 583 PAP SETLKSEEFQKRLHP 6604 LKSEEFQKR 6644 172 PAP TVPLSEDQLLYLPFR 6605 LSEDQLLYL 6645 148 PSM TYSVSFDSLFSAVKN 6606 VSFDSLFSA 6646 627 PSM VAYINADSSIEGNYT 6607 INADSSIEG 6647 450 PSM VLRMMNDQLMFLERA 6608 MMNDQLMFL 6648 663 Kallikrein WGSIEPEEFLRPRSL 6609 IEPEEFLRP 6649 160 PSA WGSIEPEEFLTPKKL 6610 IEPEEFLTP 6650 156 PSM WKEFGLDSVELAHYD 6611 FGLDSVELA 6651 103 PAP YDPLYCESVHNFTLP 6612 LYCESVHNF 6652 213 PSM YISIINEDGNEIFNT 6613 IINEDGNEI 6653 130 PAP YRKFLNESYKHEQVY 6614 FLNESYKHE 6654 92 PSM AKQIQSQWKEFGLDS 6655 IQSQWKEFG 6675 96 PSM DALFDIESKVDPSKA 6656 FDIESKVDP 6676 713 PSM DKIYSISMKHPQEMK 6657 YSISMKHPQ 6677 612 PSM DMKINCSGKIVIARY 6658 INCSGKIVI 6678 194 PAP DPLYCESVHNFTLPS 6659 YCESVHNFT 6679 214 PSM FFKLERDMKINCSGK 6660 LERDMKINC 6680 188 PSM HVIYAPSSHNKYAGE 6661 YAPSSHNKY 6681 692 PSM IYNVIGTLRGAVEPD 6662 VIGTLRGAV 6682 358 PAP KKLIMYSAHDTTVSG 6663 IMYSAHDTT 6683 284 PAP LTQLGMEQHYELGEY 6664 LGMEQHYEL 6684 73 PSM MKAFLDELKAENIKK 6665 FLDELKAEN 6685 61 PSM PSKAWGEVKRQIYVA 6666 AWGEVKRQI 6686 724 PAP RKFLNESYKHEQVYI 6667 LNESYKIIEQ 6687 93 PAP RSVLAKELKFVTLVF 6668 LAKELKFVT 6688 31 PSM SIVLPFDCRDYAVVL 6669 LPFDCRDYA 6689 593 PSA SNDVCAQVHPQKVTK 6670 VCAQVHPQK 6690 179 PSM TDSAVATARRPRWLC 6671 AVATARRPR 6691 11 PAP TECMTTNSHQGTEDS 6672 MTTNSHQGT 6692 373 PSM TEWAEENSRLLQERG 6673 AEENSRLLQ 6693 435 PSM VHNLTKELKSPDEGF 6674 LTKELKSPD 6694 477

TABLE XXb Prostate DR 3b Submotif Peptides Protein Sequence Seq. Id. No. Core Sequence Core Seq. Id. No Position PSM AKQIQSQWKEFGLDS 6655 IQSQWKEFG 6675 96 PSM DALFDIESKVDPSKA 6656 FDIESKVDP 6676 713 PSM DKIYSISMKHPQEMK 6657 YSISMKHPQ 6677 612 PSM DMKINCSGKIVIARY 6658 INCSGKIVI 6678 194 PAP DPLYCESVHNFTLPS 6659 YCESVHNFT 6679 214 PSM FFKLERDMKINCSGK 6660 LERDMKINC 6680 188 PSM HVIYAPSSHNKYAGE 6661 YAPSSHNKY 6681 692 PSM IYNVIGTLRGAVEPD 6662 VIGTLRGAV 6682 358 PAP KKLIMYSAHDTTVSG 6663 IMYSAHDTT 6683 284 PAP LTQLGMEQHYELGEY 6664 LGMEQHYEL 6684 73 PSM MKAFLDELKAENIKK 6665 FLDELKAEN 6685 61 PSM PSKAWGEVKRQIYVA 6666 AWGEVKRQI 6686 724 PAP RKFLNESYKHEQVYI 6667 LNESYKIIEQ 6687 93 PAP RSVLAKELKFVTLVF 6668 LAKELKFVT 6688 31 PSM SIVLPFDCRDYAVVL 6669 LPFDCRDYA 6689 593 PSA SNDVCAQVHPQKVTK 6670 VCAQVHPQK 6690 179 PSM TDSAVATARRPRWLC 6671 AVATARRPR 6691 11 PAP TECMTTNSHQGTEDS 6672 MTTNSHQGT 6692 373 PSM TEWAEENSRLLQERG 6673 AEENSRLLQ 6693 435 PSM VHNLTKELKSPDEGF 6674 LTKELKSPD 6694 477

TABLE XXI Population coverage with combined HLA Supertypes PHENOTYPIC FREQUENCY North American HLA-SUPERTYPES Caucasian Black Japanese Chinese Hispanic Average a. Individual Supertypes A2 45.8 39.0 42.4 45.9 43.0 43.2 A3 37.5 42.1 45.8 52.7 43.1 44.2 B7 43.2 55.1 57.1 43.0 49.3 49.5 A1 47.1 16.1 21.8 14.7 26.3 25.2 A24 23.9 38.9 58.6 40.1 38.3 40.0 B44 43.0 21.2 42.9 39.1 39.0 37.0 B27 28.4 26.1 13.3 13.9 35.3 23.4 B62 12.6 4.8 36.5 25.4 11.1 18.1 B58 10.0 25.1 1.6 9.0 5.9 10.3 b. Combined Supertypes A2, A3, B7 84.3 86.8 89.5 89.8 86.8 87.4 A2, A3, B7, A24, B44, A1 99.5 98.1 100.0 99.5 99.4 99.3 A2, A3, B7, A24, B44, A1, 99.9 99.6 100.0 99.8 99.9 99.8 B27, B62, B58

TABLE XXII Prostate Antigen Peptides Antigen Sequence Binding affinity ≦200 nM PSA.117 LMLLRLSEPA PSA.118 MLLRLSEPAEL PSA.118 MLLRLSEPA PSA.143 ALGTTCYA PSA.161 FLTPKKLQCV PSA.166 KLQCVDLHV PAP.6 LLLARAASLSL PAP.21 LLFFWLDRSV PAP.30 VLAKELKFV SEQ ID NO 6827 PAP.92 FLNESYKHEQV PAP.112 TLMSAMTNL PAP.135 ILLWQPIPV PAP.284 IMYSAHDTTV PAP.299 ALDVYNGLL PSM.26 LVLAGGFFL PSM.27 VLAGGFFLL PSM.168 GMPEGDLVYV PSM.288 GLPSIPVHPI PSM.441 LLQERGVAYI PSM.469 LMYSLVHNL PSM.662 RMMNDQLMFL PSM.663 MMNDQLMFL PSM.667 QLMFLERAFI PSM.711 ALFDIESKV HuK2.165 FLRPRSLQCV HuK2.175 SLHLLSNDMCA Binding affinity >200 nM PSM.4 LLHETDSAV PSM.25 ALVLAGGFFL PSM.427 GLLGSTEWA PSM.514 KLGSGNDFEV

TABLE XXIIIA A2 supermotif cross-reactive binding data A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 A*0206 A*6802 A2 Cross- Peptide AA Sequence Source nM nM nM nM nM Reactivity 20.0044 9 LLLARAASL PAP.6 208 13 29 425 — 4 63.0136 11 LLLARAASLSL PAP.6 8.1 3.1 5.3 80 143 5 60.0201 9 LLLARAASV PAP.6.V9 18 215 6.7 95 — 4 20.0203 10 LLARAASLSL PAP.7 500 5.2 63 9250 5714 3 63.0031 10 LLARAASLSV PAP.7.V10 109 10 21 378 727 4 63.0137 11 AASLSLGFLFL PAP.11 227 23 53 95 — 4 1419.51 10 SLSLGFLFLL PAP.13 40 13 403 21 8560 4 1419.52 10 SLSLGFLFLV PAP.13.V10 1.8 3.9 17 42 355 5 1419.50 9 SLSLGFLFV PAP.13.V9 77 25 21 93 — 4 60.0203 9 FLFLLFFWV PAP.18.V9 42 307 625 308 90 4 63.0138 11 FLLFFWLDRSV PAP.20 14 17 2.8 285 364 5 1097.09 10 LLFFWLDRSV PAP.21 28 0.60 1.6 231 — 4 1418.23 10 LTFFWLDRSV PAP.21.T2 118 11 9.6 43 16 5 63.0139 11 LLFFWLDRSVL PAP.21 65 2.9 2.7 822 4444 3 63.0033 10 SLLAKELKFV PAP.29.L2 64 5.7 3.8 38 6667 4 1097.171 9 VLAKELKFV PAP.30 96 3.6 6.7 168 — 4 63.0142 11 VLAKELKFVTL PAP.30 6.9 8.1 21 25 — 4 63.0034 10 VLAKELKFVV PAP.30.V10 31 12 189 86 2286 4 1419.55 11 FLNESYKHEQV PAP.92 29 1.4 5.6 381 6154 4 1177.01 9 TLMSAMTNL PAP.112 43 0.80 2.9 285 296 5 20.0312 10 TLMSAMTNLA PAP.112 385 3.6 37 3700 6667 3 63.0037 10 TLMSAMTNLV PAP.112.V10 63 3.9 12 43 242 5 1419.56 9 TLMSAMTNV PAP.112.V9 10 2.4 3.6 54 62 5 1419.58 10 LLALFPPEGV PAP.120.L2 5.0 0.70 1.6 148 163 5 1419.59 10 LVALFPPEGV PAP.120.V2 156 17 4.8 463 28 5 1419.6 10 ALFPPEGVSI PAP.122 278 11 133 2643 — 3 1419.61 10 ALFPPEGVSV PAP.122.V10 15 1.0 18 119 4444 4 63.0041 10 GVSIWNPILV PAP.128.V10 250 94 23 451 2286 4 60.0207 9 GVSIWNPIV PAP.128.V9 455 269 909 308 — 3 63.0042 10 PLLLWQPIPV PAP.134.L2 238 47 19 336 3333 4 1044.04 9 ILLWQPIPV PAP.135 3.3 39 1.8 71 1702 4 1418.25 9 ITLWQPIPV PAP.135.T2 34 1720 6.2 26 32 4 1419.69 10 LLWQPIPVHV PAP.136.V10 25 1.8 17 287 60 5 1166.11 10 GLHGQDLFGI PAP.196 26 0.90 2.5 315 — 4 1419.62 10 GLHGQDLFGV PAP.196.V10 12 2.3 3.1 18 — 4 63.0048 10 KLRELSELSV PAP.234.V10 263 9.1 7.1 49 1818 4 1097.05 10 IMYSAHDTTV PAP.284 217 1.5 14 411 — 4 1389.06 10 ILYSAHDITV PAP.284.L2 385 1.0 15 1480 5714 3 60.0213 9 TVSGLQMAV PAP.292.V9 294 12 122 195 5.7 5 1177.02 9 ALDVYNGLL PAP.299 73 29 256 3083 — 3 1419.64 10 LLPPYASCHV PAP.306.V10 88 15 16 98 5260 4 --indicates binding affinity >10,000 nM.

TABLE XXIIIB A2 supermotif cross-reactive binding data A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 A*0206 A*6802 A2 Cross- Peptide AA Sequence Source nM nM nM nM nM Reactivity 1126.10 9 VLAGGFFLL PSM.27 39 0.20 33 31 2857 4 1389.20 9 VLAGGFFLV PSM.27.V9 26 0.40 5.0 57 216 5 1129.04 10 GMPEGDLVYV PSM.168 55 3.1 7.1 161 6154 4 1389.22 10 GLPEGDLVYV PSM.168.L2 42 2.0 2.1 112 964 4 1418.29 10 GTPEGDLVYV PSM.168.T2 313 134 53 40 571 4 1129.10 10 GLPSIPVHPI PSM.288 147 2.7 2.1 2467 308 4 1389.24 10 GLPSIPVHIPV PSM.288.V10 55 0.70 0.60 308 121 5 1129.01 10 LLQERGVAYI PSM.441 179 5.7 6.7 861 — 3 1126.14 9 LMYSLVHNL PSM.469 64 0.40 2.1 109 320 5 1126.06 10 RMMNDQLMFL PSM.662 9.8 2.7 7.7 40 — 4 1126.01 9 MMNDQLMFL PSM.663 11 0.80 1.7 7.6 195 5 1126.16 10 QLMFLERAFI PSM.667 98 36 91 — 30 4 1129.08 9 ALFDIESKV PSM.711 85 0.70 1.4 148 8889 4 1418.30 9 ATFDIESKV PSM.711.T2 238 27 44 82 258 5 --indicates binging affinity >10,000 nM.

TABLE XXIIIC A2 supermotif cross-reactive binding data Alternate A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 A*0206 A*6802 A2 Cross- Peptide AA Sequence Source Source nM nM nM nM nM Reactivity 1419.25 11 VVFLTLSVTWI PSA.1 385 159 63 2846 — 3 63.0185 11 VVFLTLSVTWV PSA.1.V11 89 88 71 336 — 4 63.0186 11 FLTLSVTWIGV PSA.3.V11 6.8 3.0 18 65 114 5 60.0216 9 FLTLSVTWV PSA.3.V9 53 8.4 8.3 49 — 4 60.0217 9 TLSVTWIGV PSA.5.V9 26 4.9 40 712 229 4 1419.10 11 VLVHPQWVLTA PSA.49 HuK2.53 294 7.7 101 2056 — 3 1419.11 11 VLVHPQWVLTV PSA.49.V11 HuK2.53.V11 11 1.5 16 31 8889 4 63.0109 11 DLMLLRLSEPV PSA.116.V11 HuK2.120.V11 50 57 29 148 2759 4 63.0014 10 LMLLRLSEPA PSA.117 HuK2.121 200 17 67 925 5000 3 1418.43 10 LMLLR.LSEPV PSA.117.V10 HuK2.121.V10 114 67 29 25 6154 4 1419.02 9 MLLRLSEPA PSA.118 HuK2.122 195 745 145 49 — 3 1389.10 9 MLLRLSEPV PSA.118.V9 HuK2.122.V9 36 36 46 638 421 4 1389.12 11 MLLRLSEPAEV PSA.118.V11 294 331 115 1762 4444 3 1419.01 8 ALGTTCYA PSA.143 HuK2.147 15 19 13 561 — 3 1389.14 8 ALGTTCYV PSA.143.V8 HuK2.147.V8 74 6.4 12 264 — 4 1098.02 10 FLTPKKLQCV PSA.161 52 8.3 13 755 — 3 990.01 9 KLQCVDLHV PSA.166 79 205 91 6167 — 3 63.0058 10 KLQCVDLHVV PSA.166.V10 13 84 9.1 500 — 4 60.0220 9 KVTKFMLCV PSA.187.V9 69 518 53 128 — 3 1419.17 11 PLVCNGVLQGV PSA.212.V11 HuK2.216.V11 27 127 19 255 4314 4 1418.55 10 LVCNGVLQGV PSA.213.V10 HuK2.217.V10 10 2.9 12 5.6 3.5 5 --indicates binding affinity >10,000 nM.

TABLE XXIIID A2 supermotif cross-reactive binding data Alternate A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 A*0206 A*6802 A2 Cross- Peptide AA Sequence Source Source nM nM nM nM nM Reactivity 1418.13 9 LLLSIALSV HuK2.4.L2 88 176 147 189 — 4 1418.57 11 ILLSVGCTGAV HuK2.8.L2 36 33 36 308 — 4 1418.59 11 ITLSVGCTGAV HuK2.8.T2 294 134 40 206 121 5 1419.05 10 ALSVGCTGAV HuK2.9 53 75 17 542 — 3 1418.15 9 ALSVGCTGV HuK2.9.V9 24 17 9.1 264 — 4 1418.35 10 SVGCTGAVPV HuK2.11.V10 104 287 154 552 216 4 1419.10 11 VLVHPQWVLTA HuK2.53 PSA.49 294 7.7 101 2056 — 3 1419.11 11 VLVHPQWVLTV HuK2.532V11 PSA.49.V11 11 1.6 16 31 9378 4 63.0109 11 DLMLLRLSEPV HuK2.120.V11 PSA.116.V11 50 57 29 148 2759 4 63.0014 10 LMLLRLSEPA HuK2.121 PSA.117 200 17 67 925 5000 3 1418.43 10 LMLLRLSEPV HuK2.121.V0 PSA.117.V10 1.14 67 29 25 6154 4 1419.02 9 MILLRLSEPA HuK2.122 PSA.118 195 745 145 49 — 3 1389.10 9 MLLRLSEPV HuK2.122.V9 PSA.118.V9 36 36 46 638 421 4 1419.01 8 ALGTTCYA HuK2.147 PSA.143 15 19 13 561 — 3 1389.14 8 ALGTTCYV HuK2.147.V8 PSA.143.V8 74 6.4 12 264 — 4 1419.07 10 FLRPRSLQCV HuK2.165 186 4.8 4.2 — — 3 60.0191 9 SLQCVSLHL HuK2.170 500 51 417 6167 2581 3 1419.66 10 SLQCVSLHLL HuK2.170 263 4.9 71 446 5000 4 1418.52 10 SLQCVSLHLV HuK2.170.V10 13 6.3 2.8 . 5.2 205 5 1418.19 9 SLQCVSLHV HuK2.170.V9 56 165 48 4111 1600 3 1419.14 11 SLHLLSNDMCA HuK2.175 71 4.8 71 — — 3 1418.66 11 SLHLLSNDMCV HuK2.175.V11 8.6 0.80 10 2313 2162 3 1419.15 11 HLLSNDMCARA HuK2.177 417 391 250 374 — 4 1418.67 11 HLLSNDMCARV HuK2.177.V11 26 1.3 5.3 37 860 4 1418.20 9 HLLSNDMCV HuK2.177.V9 119 102 278 176 — 4 1418.53 10 LLSNDMCARV HuK2.178.V10 5.3 0.70 4.3 10 1702 4 1418.71 11 KVTEFMLCAGV HuK2.191.V11 56 10 26 29 143 5 1418.21 9 KVTEFMLCV HuK2.191.V9 53 27 31 34 6667 4 1418.22 9 FMLCAGLWV HuK2.195.V9 29 12 91 51 — 4 1419.17 11 PLVCNGVLQGV HuK2.216.V11 PSA.212.V11 27 127 19 255 4314 4 1418.55 10 LVCNGVLQGV HuK2.217.V10 PSA.213.V11 10 2.9 12 5.6 3.5 5 -- indicates binding affinity >10,000 nM.

TABLE XXIVA Immunogenicity of A2 cross-reactive binding peptides and peptide analogs Cross Peptide A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 A*0206 A*6802 Reactivity A2 A2 A2 ID AA Sequence Source nM nM nM nM nM (≦200nM) peptide native in vivo 1419.51 10 SLSLGFLFLL PAP.13 40 13 403 21 8560 3 1419.52 10 SLSLGFLFLV PAP.13.V10 1.8 3.9 17 42 355 4 1097.09 10 LLFFWLDRSV PAP.21 28 0.60 1.6 231 — 3 3/3 0/3 1418.23 10 LTFFWLDRSV PAP.21.T2 118 11 9.6 43 16 5 3/3 2/3 1097.17 9 VLAKELKFV PAP.30 96 3.6 6.7 168 — 4 1/3 0/3 1177.01 9 TLMSAMTNL PAP.112 43 0.80 2.9 285 296 3 2/2 3/3 1419.58 10 LLALFPPEGV PAP.120.L2 5.0 0.72 1.6 146 164 5 1419.61 10 ALFPPEGVSV PAP.122.V10 15 1.0 18 120 4387 4 1/3 1/3 1044.04 9 ILLWQPIPV PAP.135 3.3 39 1.8 71 8511 4 5/5 1/6 1418.25 9 ITLWQPLPV PAP.135.T2 34 1723 6.2 26 32 4 3/3 2/3 1419.69 10 LLWQPIPVHV PAP.136.V10 25 1.8 17 287 60 4 1166.11 10 GLHGQDLFGI PAP.196 26 0.9 2.5 315 — 3 1419.62 10 GLHGQDLFGV PA.P.196.V10 12 2.3 3.2 18 — 4 1097.05 10 IMYSAHDTTV PAP.284 217 1.5 14 411 — 2 3/3 0/3 1419.64 10 LLPPYASCHV PAP.306.V10 88 15 16 98 5260 4

TABLE XXIVB Immunogenicity of A2 cross-reactive binding peptide and peptide analogs Cross Peptide A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 A*0206 A*6802 Reactivity A2 A2 A2 ID AA Sequence Source nM nM nM nM nM (≦200 nM) peptide native in vivo 1126.10 9 VLAGGFFLL PSM.27 39 0.20 33 31 — 4 1/2 3/3 1389.20 9 VLAGGFFLV PSM.27.V9 26 0.40 5.0 57 216 4 1/2 1/2 1129.04 10 GMPEGDLVYY PSM.168 55 3.1 7.1 161 — 4 0/1 1/3 1129.10 10 GLPSIPVHPI PSM.288 147 2.7 2.1 2467 1538 3 2/4 0/3 1389.24 10 GLPSIPVHPV PSM.288.V10 55 0.70 0.60 308 121 4 4/4 3/4 1129.01 10 LLQERGVAYI PSM.441 179 5.7 6.7 861 — 3 3/3 1126.14 9 LMYSLVHNL PSM.469 64 0.40 2.1 109 1600 4 3/3 3/3 1126.06 10 RMMNDQLMFL PSM.662 9.8 2.7 7.7 40 — 4 1/1 20/22 1126.01 9 MMNDQLMFL PSM.663 11 0.80 1.7 7.6 976 4 2/2 3/3 1129.08 9 ALFDIESKV PSM.711 85 0.70 1.4 148 — 4 2/2 3/3

TABLE XXIVC Immunogenicity of A2 cross-reactive binding peptides and peptide analogs Peptide Alternate A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 ID AA Sequence Source Source nM nM nM 1419.27 11 FLTLSVTWIGV PSA.3.V11 6.8 3.0 18 1419.11 11 VLVHPQWVLTV PSA49.V11 HuK2.53.V11 11 1.6 16 1419.13 11 DLMLLRLSEPV PSA.116.V11 HuK2.120.V11 50 57 29 1419.02 9 MLLRLSEPA PSA.118 HuK2.122 195 745 145 1389.10 9 MLLRLSEPV PSA.118.V9 HuK2.122.V9 36 36 46 1419.01 8 ALGTTCYA PSA.143 PSA.143 15 19 13 1389.14 8 ALGTTCYV PSA.143.V8 HuK2.147.V8 74 6.4 12 1098.02 10 FLTPKKLQCV PSA.161 52 8.3 13 990.01 9 KLQCVDLHV PSA.166 79 205 91 1419.24 10 KLQCVDLHVV PSA.166.V10 13 84 9.5 1419.17 11 PLVCNGVLQGV PSA.212.V11 HuK2.216.V11 27 127 19 Cross- Peptide A*0206 A*6802 Reactivity A2 A2 A2 ID nM nM (≦200 nM) peptide native in vivo 1419.27 65 113 5 3/3 3/3 1419.11 31 9378 4 1419.13 148 2759 4 1419.02 49 — 3 1389.10 638 421 3 3/3 1/3 1419.01 562 — 3 1389.14 264 — 3 2/3 1/3 1098.02 755 — 3 3/4 0/6 990.01 6167 — 2 1/2 1/3 1419.24 502 — 3 1/2 1/2 1419.17 255 4314 3

TABLE XXIVD Immunogenicity of A2 cross-reactive binding peptides and peptide analogs Alternate A*0201 A*0202 A*0203 Peptide ID AA Sequence Source Source nM nM nM 1418.13 9 LLLSIALSV HuK2.4.L2 88 176 147 1419.05 10 ALSVGCTGAV HuK2.9 53 75 17 1419.11 11 VLVHPQWVLTV HuK2.53.V11 PSA49.V11 11 1.6 16 1419.13 11 DLMLLRLSEPV HuK2.120.V11 PSA.116.V11 50 57 29 1419.02 9 MLLRLSEPA HuK2.122 PSA.118 195 745 145 1389.10 9 MLLRLSEPV HuK2.122.V9 PSA.118.V9 36 36 46 1419.01 8 ALGTTCYA HuK2.147 PSA.143 15 19 13 1389.14 8 ALGTTCYV HuK2.147.V8 PSA.143.V8 74 6.4 12 1419.07 10 FLRPRSLQCV HuK2.165 186 4.8 4 1419.14 11 SLHLLSNDMCA HuK2.175 72 4.8 73 1419.17 11 PLVCNGVLQGV HuK2.216.V11 PSA.212.V11 27 127 19 Cross- A*0206 A*6802 Reactivity A2 A2 A2 Peptide nM nM (≦200 nM) peptide native in vivo 1418.13 189 — 4 2/2 2/2 1419.05 542 — 3 1419.11 31 9378 4 2/2 2/2 1419.13 148 2759 4 2/2 2/2 1419.02 49 — 3 1389.10 638 421 3 1419.01 562 — 3 1/2 1389.14 264 — 3 1419.07 — — 3 1/3 1419.14 — — 3 1/3 1419.17 255 4314 3 2/2 2/2

TABLE XXV DR supermotif and DR3 motif-bearing peptides cross-reactive binding peptides DR supermotif DR3 Antigen Motif+ Algorithm+* Motif+ PAP 67  39/15 21 PSM 45 25/7 4 PSA 108  54/20 31 HuK2 45 21/6 4 Total 265 139/48 60 *Number scoring positive in the combined DR1, DR4w4 and DR7 algorithms (≧1/≧2) 

1-37. (canceled)
 38. An isolated peptide comprising an oligopeptide less than 13 amino acids in length; wherein said oligopeptide is RMMNDQLMFL (SEQ ID NO:862); and wherein said isolated peptide does not encode a full length protein from prostate specific membrane antigen (PSM).
 39. The polypeptide of claim 38, which further comprises a member selected from the group consisting of: (a) at least one cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitope; (b) at least one helper T lymphocyte (HTL) epitope; and (c) at least one of the epitopes of Tables VII-XX.
 40. The peptide of claim 39, wherein the at least one HTL epitope is a PADRE® epitope.
 41. A homopolymer of the peptide of claim
 38. 42. A heteropolymer of the peptide of claim 38 and a different peptide.
 43. An isolated polynucleotide encoding the peptide of claim
 38. 44. A vector comprising the polynucleotide of claim
 43. 45. The vector of claim 44, which is a bacterial vector or a viral vector.
 46. The vector of claim 44, which is a minigene.
 47. A composition comprising the peptide of claim 38 and a pharmaceutical excipient.
 48. A composition comprising the peptide of claim 38 and a carrier.
 49. A composition comprising the peptide of claim 38 and a lipid.
 50. A composition comprising the peptide of claim 38 and one or more other peptides.
 51. The composition of claim 50, wherein said peptides are linked by spacer or linker amino acids.
 52. The composition of claim 50, wherein said one or more other peptides comprises a member selected from the group consisting of: (a) at least one cytotoxic T-cell (CTL) epitope; and (b) at least one helper T-cell (HTL) epitope.
 53. The composition of claim 50, further comprising a member selected from the group consisting of: (a) a liposome, wherein the epitopes are on or within the liposome; and (b) an antigen presenting cell, wherein the epitopes are on or within the antigen presenting cell.
 54. A method of inducing an immune response against prostate specific membrane antigen (PSM) comprising administering the composition of claim
 47. 55. A method of treating and/or preventing cancer comprising administering the composition of claim
 47. 56. The method of claim 55, comprising the use of a prime boost protocol, wherein the prime boost protocol comprises administration of a boosting agent.
 57. The method of claim 56, wherein the boosting agent comprises the peptide. 